paulclaassen A feast in so many ways! Unbelievably clear, brilliant photography. Very graphic, but never ceases to amaze. The film is ultimately not as exciting or entertaining as its predecessor, but nevertheless still fascinating. Plot flaws galore, it doesn't quite made sense why Themistokles went to Artemisia's ship, as it seemed like a suicide mission, but the sex scene that subsequently followed was indeed one to behold!The film does become a bit repetitive and the slow motion overdone, but the eye candy more than compensates for this! Sullivan Stapleton makes a likable hero.

alpha1657 How would you feel if you found out that somebody lied to you? Would you respect a person who tells serious lies about an important thing?We all know about Alexander's invasion and conquest of Persia but have you ever heard of Xerxes' invasion and conquest of Hellas?Leonidas with many more people than just 300 tried in vain to stop the Persian army and got crushed. But why so much respect for Leonidas? Because he fought intrepidly. What would he have gotten if it happened in the modern era? He would probably have received an army commendation or something - posthumously. Get the point? Okay, he's been exaggerated!The people of Athens ran for their lives days before the Persian army reached Hellas borders. Oh, and it was the Persians who grew beards as seen on all the stone carvings remaining from ancient times not the Greeks. In the movie the Persians look like aliens, orcs, zombies and beasts!Some parts of history are musts to be read. The Greko-Persian wars is an important chapter in the history of mankind.I am so concerned about how our media are run by such illiterate thugs who show no respect to accuracy when accounting for a real event. I mean how can we trust anyone from now on?

imanhn I am sorry for the casts and crews of this movie, who has no dignity and personal standard but only money!.I feel sad for those of you who has uprated this movie out of illiteracy, cause you didn't even heard about Will Durant, The Story of Civilization, or never went to London museum to see Cyrus charter of human rights, The first human right document in the world......I am sorry for the ArtSad

Rorschach I really enjoy the part 1.. It makes me keep wanting to watch over and over again.. But for this 'Rise of an Empire' its totally twisted the fact and lots of loop holes in the story.. Lots of corny before battle speeches that makes me sleepy, overuse of slow motion effects,killings that makes no sense.. I really regret watching this. The greatness and inspiring 300 in my mind is ruined.. If you are going to watch this movie seriously and expect it to be as good as part 1 then trust me you are wrong. I don't even recognize this as 300 part 2.. It's just a lame movie trying to imitate 300 legacy and fail miserably. The high ratings obviously more than half are fakes.. Just go read those positive reviews.. So much loopholes. They can name the crews, actors and actress so well like a book. Wow.. And i saw one of them prompting people to buy DVDs when out. So obvious they are insiders that came here to make fake votes and reviews.. I dun even know the names of the actors and actress so well.. Hey.. Stop cheating yourselves that this was a successful movie. It is not at all..