With her black hair, pale white skin and murderous ways, she looks like the women in Edvard Munch's lithographs and acts like a vampiric femme fatale of the early 20th century. The movie's one genuine point of interest is perverse, and that's Eva Green's performance as the evil Artemisia, the naval commander heading the Persian attack on the Greek city states. If you want to know who's winning, the only way to tell is to see which general is smiling. "300: Rise of an Empire" becomes a succession of battle scenes, filmed in tight medium shots, so that all you see is commotion. Trying to out-Zack Zack, he replaces Snyder's rose petals with gushes of blood and muted colors with murk. The movie's muted colors and Snyder's use of a digital rose-petal effect, instead of blood, in the battle scenes, evoked the story's origins as a graphic novel, while suggesting something far away, as though we were seeing, not the events themselves, but their memory.īut as is often the case with a novice action director, Murro overcompensates for his inexperience.
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