300 Rise of an Empire 2014 - 4 stars out of 5 stars

This 2014 release that runs 102 minutes is a worthy successor to"300"reviewed earlier on this blog.Forget history and hang on for a bloodiest of FX violence and scenes like a horse galloping from ship to ship in a film about sea battles that was unexpected after 300 which was a land battle.The actors are fine including two favorites of mine, Sullivan Stapleton as Themistocles and  Lena Headey      as Queen Gorgo  amongst many others and a few surprises from the first film.All in all a guilty  bloody pleasure.Trailer follows the picture and a IMDB summary is below.Maybe a sequel ???

Greek general Themistokles leads the charge against invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes and Artemisia, vengeful commander of the Persian navy.

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2982128409/