This is essentially the same underdog story as before, except 300 Spartans versus Xerxes's army of thousands is reimagined as a small navy fleet against thousands of warships. Like its predecessor, the plot, based on Miller's yet-unpublished comic 'Xerxes' and adapted by Snyder and Kurt Johnstad, doesn't demand much of its audience, because the film subscribes itself to the idea that littering the screen with pretty CG visuals is more than enough to keep viewers engaged. Despite being stylishly identical - a near carbon copy, to be more precise - to Zack Snyder's wildly imaginative adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel, '300: Rise of an Empire' succeeds at only being passably entertaining, an easy way for passing the time while waiting for a better movie to come along.
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