One of the Worst Movies ever created. ALEC

After watching the first 300 movie that came out a couple years earlier, I was not expecting the sequel, 300 Rise of a Empire, to be any better than the original. As  I was watching the movie about the war that I knew very little about, I still found numerous amount of problems with the film. By the end of the film, it was if the movie not only took my money, but at the same time wasted three hours of my life. As a viewer, I felt that the goal of this film, was to show the viewer how amazing the Athenians were at naval warfare, and how much smarter they were than their foes, the Persians. But it was the way they conducted this film, how unrealistic it truly was and how they portrayed the Greeks as if they had some super human strength, which would eventually anger me tremendously more.

As I watched the movie, I noticed film makers constantly had the Athenians doing things that just did not make sense.  At one point, one of he Athenians had the ability to shoot a arrow about 500 hundred yards, in a storm, where the wind was intense, and rain was coming down hard. He still managed  to hit its target, looking like it took little to none effort.  Now, Hollywood tends to change the story line in order to make it more interesting for the viewer, but when they begin defying physics and gravity in general, that is when I get a little annoyed. Similar to later on in the film, when a Athenian jumped off a large cliff, and landed on a ship that one would perceive to be twenty or thirty feet below him, but of course, the film makers made it very clear that would not change how he landed; that he landed perfectly, after which he then went on to slay more of his Persian foes with little acknowledgement that he would have at least broke his ankle or leg, instead of landing perfectly, and sprinting around like he had in the scene.

Throughout the battles, it was very clear that the film makers wanted to show as much blood shed as possible. Showing the viewers that when two armies come together to fight, there is going to be a lot of blood and death.  But of course they felt more special affects needed to be added and that they really needed to wow the viewer, they made sure to make the blood in the film, look incredibly unrealistic. Also in the usual 300 style, they made anything they possibly could, whether it be a swing of a sword or just a single step of a individual walking to the bathroom, the film makers made sure that it was in slow motion.