![]() ![]() An outnumbered band of Greeks staves off a tyrannical Persian army below roiling skies of red and gray. This may be war by sea, but the ingredients of "300" are largely unaltered. Made clearly to capitalize on the popularity of "300," "Rise of an Empire" is something like collected behind-the-scenes from the Persian invasion featured in "300." Whereas the first film chronicled, ab by ab, the Spartans' heroic stand in the Battle of Thermopylae against Xerxes's Persian invasion, "Rise of an Empire" is about the concurrent naval fight, the Battle of Artemisium. ![]() The computer-generated warfare franchise is now a third of the way to a six-pack. Like its forerunner, the 2007 hit "300," "Rise of an Empire" again plunges us into bloody, hyper-stylized Greek history: mythology with muscles. The glistening abs are back in "300: Rise of an Empire," and they've been doing crunches.
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