Maybe we should have dined at Arby’s instead… You get what you’re paying for, unless you’ve never heard that ‘This is Sparta’ line.
Take what I just described, and paste super slow motion action scenes that you’d expect from ‘300,’ multiply that by a ridiculous amount of blood, and you have this movie. The entire color palet changes to blue, aside from the pints of CGI blood. Additionally, the Greek army is led by Athenian general, Themistocles (Sullivan Stapleton) who was the man responsible for killing the father of Xerxes ten years prior, and is paying for his mistake as he tries to unite the city states of Greece against their fabulous ninja foes. The heroes in this film fly under different colors, quite literally. Rise of an Empire, based on Frank Miller’s yet to be released comic ‘Xerxes,’ plays as a companion piece to Zack Snyder’s 2007 film ‘300.’ It’s a 100 minute action film with key pieces of exposition detailing the origin of the Persian Abercrombie God/King, Xerxes, and includes a new villain by the name of Artemisia played by Eva Green (Casino Royale) and a bunch of action scenes showing what the rest of the Greek forces were doing while the Spartans were being arrogant punks with a death wish. It’s not actually a sequel… but not even a prequel.
