300: Rise of an Empire

"Seize your glory!"

2014 1h 42m EN

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Greek general Themistocles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. Themistocles faces the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god, Xerxes and Artemesia, the vengeful commander of the Persian navy.

“Seize your glory!”

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Cast

Sullivan Stapleton
Themistocles
Eva Green
Artemisia
Lena Headey
Queen Gorgo
Callan Mulvey
Scylias
David Wenham
Dillios
Rodrigo Santoro
Xerxes
Jack O'Connell
Calisto
Andrew Tiernan
Ephialtes

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Noam Murro
Writers: Kurt Johnstad, Zack Snyder, Jay Oliva
Languages: English
Countries: Bulgaria, United States of America

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MONEY

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$110M budget — tentpole studio territory.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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Made its money back 3.1× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Released 12 years ago.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: Bulgaria, United States of America.

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5 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "300 Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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6 / 8

CAST

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375+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Noam Murro, shot by Simon Duggan. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Tom Holkenborg. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Noam Murro directs. Simon Duggan behind the camera. Tom Holkenborg scores. David Brenner cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in Bulgaria, United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1$110M budget — tentpole studio territory.
2Made its money back 3.1× over at the box office.
3Released 12 years ago.
4International production across 2 countries: Bulgaria, United States of America.
5Part of the "300 Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6375+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
7Directed by Noam Murro, shot by Simon Duggan. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
8Original score by Tom Holkenborg. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
9Editor David Brenner shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
10Sullivan Stapleton and Eva Green and Lena Headey carry the top of the cast.
11Marketing tagline: "Seize your glory!".
12IMDB entry: tt1253863 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
13Classified under 21 themes, including "based on comic", "sequel", "sword fight", "soldier".
14Released under 22 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Simon Duggan
Original score: Tom Holkenborg
Editing: David Brenner
Production design: Patrick Tatopoulos
Costume design: Christine Bieselin Clark
Makeup / hair: Justin Raleigh
VFX supervisor: Betsy Paterson
Sound: Michael Keller
Stunt coordinator: Dian Hristov
Runtime: 102 min · 1h 42m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $110,000,000
Box office: $337,580,051
Return: 307% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

Part of

300 Collection

Fictionalized action films based on the retellings of the Persian Wars, a series of conflicts between the Empire of Persia and Greek city-states.

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What people are saying

zag2014-07-08
Thought this movie was pretty good when I wasn't expecting too much from the bad ratings and reviews I'd seen. I was pleasantly surprised at the storyline, and the visuals and battle scenes were pretty epic. Overall I would say this is worth a watch but don't expect too much from the film. The original is better but this is a worthy follow up.
Dark Jedi2014-07-27
★ 6/10
This is one of these movies which will always have its detractors because it is not historically correct. There are certain movies in which you expect a certain amount of historical accuracy and there are certain movies where you do not. This is one of the latter. You must be out of your mind if you ever expected any great deal of historical accuracy from this movie (or any Hollywood production nowadays for that matter). Therefore it pains me to see the reviews that slams this movie with a one-star rating and moans about how it is screwing with the (their) history. I would certainly not call this a great movie but, as a movie, it is far from the one-star range. The movie is watchable, it is even somewhat enjoyable to watch but it is not really a great and epic movie. There are lots of action which is one of the good parts. Some of the scenery, especially the naval ones, are quite magnificent even though they are somewhat overdone in the usual Hollywood way. The bow waves make these heavy, wooden, oar-powered ships look like they are speeding ahead at 30 knots for instance. The action is of the rather gory and blood splattering type. Given all the slow motion scenes with copious amounts of blood slowly floating in the air I would assume this was more out of intention than out of ignorance although the ease by which these ancient swords chopped through bones and necks seemed rather unbelievable. I do not mind blood and gore in my movies but I have to say that the blood and gore in this movie seemed to have taken precedence over the rest of the creative process. The movie simply failed to inspire the awe that one would expect an epic movie of this type would do. Someone said that the movie played out a lot like a video game and to some extent that is true. I never really felt much for any of the characters when watching the movie. I found myself just waiting for the next action scene. The enjoyable part of this movie is really the action, the scenery and the effects, not the story or the characters. The movie is watchable, even enjoyable depending on your expectations but far from great.
Andres Gomez2014-11-09
★ 4/10
Did they really have to do a second movie? More of the same but with lack of innovation and talent. The story is predictable and unconnected, the same than the battles. Stapleton's character doesn't have the same power in screen than 300's Butler's. Probably, the only thing to save is Eva Green although I think she is walking a path in which she is not gaining points to perform in better future movies.