#Movie 300 rise of an empire movie

The movie opens at the end of Thermopylae, flashes back to the earlier Battle of Marathon, then flashes forward to the fictive present as Themistokles rallies the city states and prepares for battle at sea as Leonidas marches to his fate at Thermopylae. That prophecy, by the way, isnвЂ™t shown - a clever and quotably theatrical moment discarded as Queen Gorgo (Lena Headey) relates this oral history. Sullivan Stapleton (вЂњGangster SquadвЂќ) is Themistokles, the Greek general who took the oracleвЂ™s prophecy that Greece could only be saved вЂњby a wall of woodвЂќ (i.e., ships) to heart and fought the enormous Persian fleet at Artemisium and Salamis. It lacks the contorts history, and lacks the heroic proportions and poetry of вЂњ300,вЂќ mainly thanks to a less impressive cast and murky, forgettable script. ThereвЂ™s nothing that moving in вЂњRise of an Empire,вЂќ a more visually stunning but less thrilling epic with bloodier slo-motion swordfights, this time at sea. So many Persian arrows will rain on them that they will вЂњblot out the sunвЂќ? So it was too much to hope that someone with Gerard ButlerвЂ™s charismatic, bellowing swagger would be around for the sequel, вЂњ300: Rise of an Empire.вЂќ His Leonidas and his oiled-down eight-pack are sorely missed, as are the quotable quatrains of that famous fight, the Spartan trash talk that sings through the ages. That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.вЂќ

вЂњGo, tell the Spartans, stranger passing by

King Leonidas slipped into legend at the Battle of Thermopylae, martyred with 300 Spartans for the sake of Western Civilization and Spartan glory.

Movie 300 rise of an empire