Every reviewer at some point thinks its big and clever to describe a stupid, loud movie as all "sound and fury, signifying nothing", and it never gets any less smug. Anyway, I just watched 300: Rise of an Empire. Just putting that out there. Yep.
Rise Of An Empire, or 300 Two, makes a bold attempt to get more mileage out of a now ten year old movie that people kind of liked at the time, before they were overfed on other movies recycling Zack Snyder's action scenes, and later Zack Snyder too. Much like the sequel to Sin City though, 300 Two came out far too late and missed the damn bandwagon. All they can do is chase it down the street, yelling "I can be just as cool!"
300 Two is a really bad movie. The pervasive CGI, once a stylistic feature of the previous film now looks dated and tacky. The much quoted Spartan wit has been replaced by an endless chain of pompous speeches. The gore and slowmo effects, once a spectacle, is now comically exaggerated. It's like watching a jam factory explode, if jam factories could do that in a really boring way. The stand out best scene in the movie by far happens half way through when Eva Green (who would be chewing the scenery if it weren't all CGI) has an honest to god fuck battle with the hero. I can't remember seeing something as ridiculous as watching two generals exchanging silly sex faces whilst they try to hump each other into submission to the sound of war drums.
As entertaining as it is to see Eva Green play the gothy pantomime villain, I just can't recommend the film on her performance alone. If you liked the first film and had any desire to see how a sequel plays out, don't. Just don't.
Whats a Grecian Earn, Anyway?
Every reviewer at some point thinks its big and clever to describe a stupid, loud movie as all "sound and fury, signifying nothing", and it never gets any less smug. Anyway, I just watched 300: Rise of an Empire. Just putting that out there. Yep.
Rise Of An Empire, or 300 Two, makes a bold attempt to get more mileage out of a now ten year old movie that people kind of liked at the time, before they were overfed on other movies recycling Zack Snyder's action scenes, and later Zack Snyder too. Much like the sequel to Sin City though, 300 Two came out far too late and missed the damn bandwagon. All they can do is chase it down the street, yelling "I can be just as cool!"
300 Two is a really bad movie. The pervasive CGI, once a stylistic feature of the previous film now looks dated and tacky. The much quoted Spartan wit has been replaced by an endless chain of pompous speeches. The gore and slowmo effects, once a spectacle, is now comically exaggerated. It's like watching a jam factory explode, if jam factories could do that in a really boring way. The stand out best scene in the movie by far happens half way through when Eva Green (who would be chewing the scenery if it weren't all CGI) has an honest to god fuck battle with the hero. I can't remember seeing something as ridiculous as watching two generals exchanging silly sex faces whilst they try to hump each other into submission to the sound of war drums.
As entertaining as it is to see Eva Green play the gothy pantomime villain, I just can't recommend the film on her performance alone. If you liked the first film and had any desire to see how a sequel plays out, don't. Just don't.