300 Rise of an Empire Blu Ray Review
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300: Ascent of an Empire
(2014)
Greek full general Themistokles attempts to unite all of Greece against the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes, and Artemesia, vengeful commander of the Western farsi navy.
For more most 300: Rising of an Empire and the 300: Rise of an Empire Blu-ray release, meet 300: Rise of an Empire Blu-ray Review published by Kenneth Brownish on June 14, 2014 where this Blu-ray release scored 4.0 out of 5.
Director: Noam Murro
Writers: Zack Snyder
, Kurt Johnstad, Frank Miller
Starring: Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Greenish, Lena Headey, Hans Matheson, Callan Mulvey, David Wenham
Producer: Gianni Nunnari
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300: Rise of an Empire Blu-ray Review
"For glory's sake, war!"
Reviewed past Kenneth Brown, June 14, 2014
Bigger, noisier, bloodier, more roughshod and more aggressive, admittedly. Director Noam Murro and producer/co-writer Zack Snyder's 300: Ascent of an Empire dutifully plays the function of big-upkeep sequel to Snyder'south 2007 surprise box office striking, dishing out a gory, visceral assail on the senses that ups the franchise ante in every believable way. As a companion piece, it employs a rarely used sequel-structure, weaving the new story of Athenian hero Themistocles into the textile of the now-familiar tale of Spartan rex Leonidas' fateful stand at Thermopylae. It even distances itself from 300, leaving the shores of Greece to focus on the crucial naval battles raging at sea. All well and skillful. But is it a meliorate film than its predecessor? Adrenaline junkies will surely shout "tonight nosotros dine in HELL!" And if viewed sheerly as mindless entertainment -- call it Big Dumb Hyper-stylized Historical Fun -- they might exist right. Unfortunately, Rise of an Empire lacks some of the poetry, power, pacing and visual prowess of the original, reveling in edgeless force trauma that occasionally borders on cocky-parody.
As King Leonidas (a briefly glimpsed merely frustratingly absent Gerard Butler) defies the leaders of Sparta and wages war with invading God-king Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), the politicians of Athens choose a different course of action, sending a large fleet of ships to engage the still-overwhelming forces of the Farsi navy. Athens entrusts its fleet to its greatest warrior, Themistokles (Sullivan Stapleton), who years earlier killed Xerxes' father, King Darius I (Yigal Naor). Xerxes, in turn, tasks his finest commander and sole confidant, the manipulative and vengeful Artemisia (Eva Green), with destroying the Athenian navy. Like Leonidas, Themistokles must rely on skill and strategy to combat the enormous size and strength of his enemy. Unlike Leonidas, though, martyrdom will not forge a road to victory. It will take all he has to defeat Artemisia, all he is to overcome such insurmountable odds, and eventually all he tin can muster to convince Sparta and grieving widow Queen Gorgo (Lena Headey) to assist Athens in their nearly dire hour of need.
It would exist easier to characterization Rise of an Empire an imitation if Snyder weren't and so straight involved with the product. All the same, Murro isn't as confident or accomplished a filmmaker and struggles to evoke Snyder's patented style while realizing a vision all his ain. The event is decidedly like yet decidedly unlike. Whereas Snyder clung to comic artist Frank Miller'south illustrations and limerick to stunning ends, Murro paints with wider swaths of CG on a much glossier canvas. The results are yet striking, but not quite then hypnotic or impressive. Greenish-screening is much more obvious. FX seams more apparent. Armies more akin to animated action figures. And sword fights and battle scenes less impactful and convincing. Add to that Murro's shakier grasp on irksome motion, his relative weakness in comic-panel framing, and some trouble he encounters when staging climactic action beats and you accept a moving picture that looks the part by and large but doesn't feel quite right. By the time Themistokles mounts a horse hidden in the belly of his boat and begins galloping from one sinking Persian send to the next, swinging his sword and thrusting devastating kicks at dazed onlookers, any sense of aesthetic grace has drained away. His subsequent disharmonism and standoff with Artemisia is even sillier, declining to earn the payoff information technology and so eagerly expects to collect.
The script suffers as well, get-go and foremost from the prevailing pretentiousness of the narration, but more subtly from its foundations. Historically, Athens and Sparta represented two diametrically oppositional philosophies. Athens was a city-land of the arts and sciences; Sparta of war. 300 exuded all things Sparta. Rise of an Empire touches on this underlying conflict -- several times over actually -- only tends to reduce it to a 2nd-tier theme at best, and an inconsistent one at that. Themistokles and his men may also exist the Spartans at the stop of the day (with Artemisia continuing in for Xerxes), and much of the same-iness of the sequel is rooted in this mirroring. Rather than provide a more reluctant warrior who rises to greatness through varying ways, we go Leonidas Part Deux. (Side note: the real Themistokles didn't kill a male monarch and, after, lived out his days every bit an exile of Greece and a Persian governor.) Rather than continually explore the dramatic dissever betwixt Athens and Sparta, information technology'southward dealt with superficially. Not organically either, just as the screenplay dictates. How problematic does it become? The film'south third act hinges on Themistokles, an Athenian, attempting to convince Gorgo, a Spartan, to go to state of war. And though that may strike some as a pocket-sized nitpick, it's indicative of the from-the-hip shotgunning in which Snyder and co-writer Kurt Johnstad indulge; a carelessness that drives some of the more than questionable decisions made by the characters. (Chief among them the "negotiations" betwixt Themistokles and Artemisia, which, even if interpreted equally a game of manipulation, is about as laughable as it is nonsensical. If non immediately then hopefully upon closer examination.)
Did I hate Ascension of an Empire? Surprise! Non at all. It isn't the full-fledged sequel it could accept been, or even very satisfying on its ain terms, but it has the makings of a neat film and, I gotta say, I enjoyed a good chunk of it. Strike Dorsum's Stapleton is a magnetic pb who brings far more to the table than the script provides, drawing upon his innate grit and gristle to evangelize a hero worthy of the 300-verse. Green, meanwhile, is a sexy, slinky femme fatale from start to finish, chomping downwards on the unabridged film and gnawing through action sequences with the fierceness and ferocity of a true warrior princess. Santoro is excellent, specially in the pre-god Xerxes flashbacks, and Headey, though a fleck out of her element when charging into battle, lends emotional weight and gravitas to an otherwise glorified cameo. The loftier seas action is a blast as well, at to the lowest degree once yous surrender the hope that it will ever corporeality to annihilation more than an exercise in let'south top ourselves again! blood-letting. The ship combat is reasonably thrilling (in a higher place all, the first ii naval skirmishes), the swordplay is fairly exciting, and the callbacks to the first film are, every now and and then, pretty clever. 300 is still the smarter, savvier, more visually stirring comicbook actioner, but I doubtable Rise of an Empire is better suited to mass audience consumption. So catch some popcorn, switch off the ol' encephalon-pan and lookout sword pierce flesh, metal splinter wood, and ancient Persian might dash itself on the rocks of Athenian and Spartan will.
For a more positive accept on the film, read Brian Orndorf'due south March 2014 theatrical review.
300: Rise of an Empire Blu-ray, Video Quality
Rise of an Empire's 1080p/AVC-encoded video presentation is a first-rate stunner, with an exceedingly refined paradigm faithful to Murro and DP Simon Duggan's blood-soaked vision and flawless even in the face of the film'due south most frenetic action scenes. Colors are desaturated and stylized as intended, with opulent golds, dominicus-bathed ambers, stormy blues, visceral reds and deep, inky blacks. Contrast remains vibrant throughout also, and detail never falters. Edges are razor sharp -- no ringing or aliasing to contend with -- and textures are revealing. Note the flecks of blood that spray across a warrior's confront. The stubble that frames a hardened jaw. The shards and splinters of wood that explode from the hull of a battered transport. The pinpoint specks of dust and glowing embers suspended in the breeze. The spray of water from a crashing wave. And the wear and tear of a battleworn blade. Moreover, grain is intact (although much more subdued than that which assaults the original 300), while significant macroblocking, banding and other problems are nowhere to be seen. All told, 300: Rise of an Empire'southward video encode is the stuff of daze and awe.
300: Ascent of an Empire Blu-ray, Audio Quality
Warner's DTS-HD Master Audio seven.i surround track is armed to the teeth and ready for war. The LFE channel exerts its authority again and again, throwing the total weight and power of its fury backside every meaty shlunk of metal coming together bone, every ear-splitting send to ship collision, every booming crevice of thunder or fiery explosion, and every roar, accuse and impact of the Athenian forces. Rear speaker activeness is aggressive and immersive as well, submerging the listener in the watery chaos of the film's naval battles, the clash of countless swords and the surge of the body of water. Directionality is precise, pans are silky smoothen and dynamics are outstanding. Better still, no thing how loud or unruly the soundscape becomes, the mix doesn't miss a single opportunity to deliver upon its potential. Dialogue isn't hindered either, with intelligible, perfectly prioritized voices that are never forced to compete with the sounds of state of war or the ebb and period of the Junkie XL score. 300: Rise of an Empire is an AV titan.
300: Rise of an Empire Blu-ray, Special Features and Extras
- Behind the Scenes: The 300 Effect (HD, thirty minutes): Four Focus Signal-style featurettes kicking things off with a talking-heads overview of the sequel's production, from Frank Miller's initial pitch to producer Zack Snyder to the merging of performance, visual effects and encarmine brutality. Segments include "three Days in Hell," "Cruel Artistry," "A New Breed of Hero" and "Taking the Battle to Ocean."
- Real Leaders & Legends (HD, 23 minutes): A lengthy, much appreciated dissection of the film's loose accommodation of history, with both filmmakers and historians offer a aboveboard, most scene by scene, character past graphic symbol breakdown of the differences between the very existent battles and players of the Farsi/Greek wars and the version of those clashes and warriors as realized on screen.
- Women Warriors (Hard disk drive, 12 minutes): "They look fantastic and they are true-blue to the DNA of 300!" Eva Green'southward Artemisia and Lena Headey'southward Queen Gorgo, as empowered women, warriors and leaders.
- Savage Warships (Hard disk, 11 minutes): The ships and strategies of the Greek navy, the sets used to create the naval battles of the picture, and the historical developments, advancements, applied science and tactics employed by the Greeks in war.
- Becoming a Warrior (Hard disk, 5 minutes): The bandage members train for their roles.
300: Ascension of an Empire Blu-ray, Overall Score and Recommendation
300: Rise of an Empire doesn't live upwards to the retentiveness of Leonidas or the boldness of 300, but it's a suitably entertaining sequel, so long every bit you lot don't listen Big Dumb Fun invading the second affiliate of Snyder'south before long to be three-picture saga. The Blu-ray edition knows how to handle itself in boxing, though, and brings with it an absolutely stunning video presentation and intimidating DTS-HD Master Audio vii.1 surround rails, also as a solid complement of special features. Worth the toll of admission? Sure, just dial your expectations downwardly a scrap to more easily relish the brutal, encarmine good time Murro has in store.
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