Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, especially one packing two lethal blades.
Presented with an unworthy male, she summarily beheads him, theatrically kisses the severed noggin and then flings it contemptuously away. To say she takes no prisoners is like saying Godzilla doesn’t have a calling card. This highly stylized account, drawn as before from a graphic novel by Frank Miller but under the direction this time of Israel’s Noam Murro, has a vibrant lead in Eva Green, best known as Bond girl Vesper Lynd from Casino Royale.Īs Artemisia, commander of the Persian navy, she dresses Goth but acts Amazon.
The Greeks are once against vastly outnumbered by invading Persians, and here we meet the secret weapon of Rise of an Empire: women. Neither prequel nor sequel (maybe we should call it equal), it looks at the other Greeks versus Persians clash that was happening around the same ancient time as 300’s Battle of Thermopylae.Īs any history book (or Google) will tell you, this is the aquatic skirmish on the Aegean Sea. So the mere existence of 300: Rise of an Empire is worthy of note, especially the inventive means by which the story has been advanced.
A prequel seemed the obvious path, but then Butler went sitcom soft and Snyder opted for stories of super dudes in leotards. 18AĪ heap of bodies only partially explains the seven-year wait for a follow to 300, Zack Snyder’s ancient Greek affair in which Gerard Butler and 299 beefcake bros nakedly took on multitudinous Persians with only their swords and sweat.īutler’s Spartan King Leonidas and his men achieved “a beautiful victory” - not to mention great box office - but sadly lost their heads. Starring Eva Green, Sullivan Stapleton, Lena Headey, Rodrigo Santoro and Igal Naor.
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