…very much more of the same in terms of bare-chested speeches and heavy bouts of narration, but the epic sea battles are freshly presented, and the spectacle is huge throughout…

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 13, 2023

Aside from Green, “300: Rise of an Empire” doesn’t have a lot to offer.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 25, 2022

Green enlivens the screen. The rest consists of profuse bloodshed and slow-motion, copying Snyder’s style to mind-numbing extremes.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 18, 2022

Skulls split, crows feast, and golden calves jiggle in the sun-kissed air - spectacle begets spectacle. In the end the movie doesn't hold together as well as the first one, but good hell it's some fun while you're up in it.

| Jul 2, 2021

A great villain and some fun action scenes almost make up for the plodding plot but the brutishness of the storytelling makes the original feel positively light hearted by comparison.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 1, 2021

A film of excesses.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 4, 2020

Exists almost solely for us to behold the repeated battles between the Persians headed by Xerxes and Artemisia and the Greeks.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 24, 2020

While 300: Rise of an Empire might have more story than its predecessor ... it feels like less of a film, overall.

| Jun 29, 2020

It rehashes old ideas and seems to bask in the gross and problematic elements of the original, unaware of the changes in social attitudes that had occurred between the production of the two films.

| Feb 6, 2020

An entertaining mix of action and lively special effects, and depending on your tastes, should at least equal (and even enhance) the experience of 300.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 29, 2019

Elevated only by Green's gleefully demented performance, 300: Rise of an Empire, to its credit and its detriment, plays like a fun but needless extension of its predecessor.

| Original Score: B | Aug 6, 2019

Boring, numbing, unnecessary.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 17, 2019

300: Rise of an Empire is a fun expansion to the universe created by Zack Snyder. Nevertheless, its apologetic plot may be another symptom of Frank Miller's creative decline. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 23, 2019

The original's quotable lines are replaced with po-faced speeches about freedom and democracy, whilst the chosen palette -- all greys and blues -- is dark, dull, and tiresome.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 8, 2019

[Eva Green's] take on Artemisia makes her worth watching, in this film and in future projects.

| Feb 5, 2019

It's a film that sacrifices style for substance, but man, that substance is a lot of fun.

| Original Score: B | Feb 1, 2019

[I]t retroactively makes 300 less interesting (if it was ever truly interesting to begin with).

| Jan 11, 2019

It is fine and dandy if 300: Rise Of An Empire is the type of erratic cinema smorgasbord that some may feel drawn to in the orgy of grossness, nudity, debauchery and tawdriness...[an] empty-minded salacious spectacle

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 11, 2018

On a story level, Rise of an Empire is a superior film to its predecessor with a much better structured plot and more defined heroes and villains.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 1, 2018

300: Rise of an Empire combined 3 things that I very much enjoy: shirtless men, powerful ladies and some good old bloody violence. That being said, if you're looking for anything more than that then you've come to the wrong place.

| Aug 24, 2018