![]() Although you will have seen many action films set during a point of time in history (this one's set in 480 BC), there is plenty in here to keep your attention from start to finish. The film itself looks fantastic, awash in a red-sepia tone that dominates everything. Part-vamp and part-warrior princess in leather, Green is stunning as Artemisia. The blood and gore is off the scale warriors are hacked and cleaved in glorious CGI detail. Xerxes himself, looking like he has emerged from a gold bath and resplendent in various piercings, is relegated to a few booming sentences. ![]() He shows his resolve when mustering the Greek forces with lines like, "We choose to die on our feet rather than live on our knees!" But is he immune to Artemisia's female charms or will those prove to be his Achilles heel? Yet, he knows that each of them would have to, if need be, make the ultimate sacrifice to save 'Mother Greece'. Themistocles, although lacking the crazed blood-lust that drove Leonidas, is weary of war. Artemisia realises that she has an equal in strategy and cunning, against whom overwhelming force and superior numbers alone won't work. Everything from the Battle of Marathon to the Battle of Salamis is haphazardly squeezed into less than two hours of film. Unfortunately, this creates far more problems than it solves. Indeed, the Persian navy splinters the Greek galleys, until they come up against Themistocles. With 300: Rise of an Empire, graphic novelist Frank Miller and director Noam Murro take this focused scope and blow it up. Artemisia is a determined commander, who doesn't think much of her adversaries, clad in sandals and capes.
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