Girl Fight Movie Review

Girl Fight

                                       

Girl Fight is dramatic TV movie based on a true story which is released on 2011. Don’t confuse it with the sports drama ‘Girlfight’, which is starred by Michelle Rodriguez and is released on 2000. Girl Fight is written by Benita Garvin and directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal. The major characters of this movie are played by Jodelle Ferland, Anne Heche, James Tupper, Tess Atkins, Keely Purvis, Genevieve Buechner, Taylor Hui, Caley Dimmock, Linda Darlow and Lanette Ware.

Girl Fight tells the story of a girl who gets beaten severely by some of her classmates and those girls post the video over Internet. Then the beaten girl’s parents seek justice for what has happened to their daughter. Although the plot is different, but Girl Fight is about what immature teens do, like we saw in the movie Betrayed at 17.

A Scene from the movie Girl Fight

Plot:

Haley is a high school girl who finds a hard time making friends with her classmates. She is intelligent, but has only one friend on the whole school. She and her friend sometimes get bullied by other popular girls of the school. Haley is concerned for this and she speaks to her mom about it. Her mom supports her personality by saying that nothing is wrong with her.

By incidents, Haley starts to talk with a very popular girl of the school, named Alexa. Alexa has her own circle of friends who do everything together. Soon Haley becomes good friend with Alexa and gets in Alexa’s friend circle. They start to hang out together in and out of the school.

Haley changes after getting her new friends. She becomes rude to her parents and little sister and ignores her old best friend. After spending the whole day of her birthday with Alexa and her circle and keeping the family waiting, Haley’s father grounds her for a week. But Haley disobeys her father when Alexa calls her while crying. Haley goes to Alexa’s place and spends the night there.

Alexa’s other friends get jealous by the intimacy of Haley and Alexa. Some of them starts to hate Haley and one day they find some bad words that Haley wrote on her best friends wall on a social networking site (which she wrote before she was friends with Alexa). They show them to Alexa in Haley’s absence.

To take revenge on Haley, they all plan to beat her and to post the video on internet, which will get a very good number of clicks. According to the plan, when Haley comes to Alexa’s house, they beat her severely which makes her unconscious. Haley wakes up badly injured and bleeding and then they drop her at a parking lot, threatening her not to tell anyone about them. They record the whole thing in a cell phone

Haley’s parents find her in a hospital. There she tells them what has happened to her. Her parents file a police report. Haley’s mother visits Alexa’s guardian, her grandmother and tells about it. In front of them, Alexa and her two friends reject the claim. Later on, Alexa’s grandmother finds the video. Being a just person, she hands that video to Haley’s mother.

Haley’s mother gives the video to the police and after getting that evidence, the police arrests all the girls. Haley is yet to recover from the physical injury and the mental shock from the beating. As an evidence, the police gives the video the media. The reporters start to gather in front of Haley’s house and his father keeps them away.

Soon the girls get out of the prison on bail, which they get with the support of a TV reporter. That reporter was earlier turned down by Haley’s father so attend a morning show and to talk about their side of the incident. Inside the prison and after getting out, Alexa and her friends enjoy the recognition they have got from the video shown on TV news.

Haley’s parents want the girls to get maximum sentence for what they have done, but Haley stays confused. After seeing the video, Haley agrees to testify on the court. She also comes face to face with Alexa once. Haley still doesn’t want those girls to get a life sentence, which is what they are going to get after she testifies in the court.

My review of the movie Girl Fight:

First of all, I liked the movie Girl Fight.

The plot of this movie was good, realistic and educative. The plot of Girl Fight is made up by what immature teenagers do without considering the consequences, something like what we saw in the movie Betrayed at 17. It gives a message to the teenagers. The directions and screenplay was good, although they didn’t seem extraordinary. The cinematography was just average, good enough for a TV movie. But I think Girl Fight severely lacked some romantic touch.

The dialogues and acting of Girl Fight were just average. Although they didn’t look bad or irritating, but still they could be better. The acting of the side characters (Haley’s parents) were much better than the leading characters (Haley and Alexa). Same thing can be said for the dialogs also.  The role of the male characters and Haley’s best friend was very limited in Girl Fight. Also, at different times, the characters (specially Alexa’s friends) looked unusually immature.

The set design, the lighting and the camera works of Girl Fight were good. The costume design and the make ups were also good and realistic.

There was no nude or gore scene in Girl Fight, so you can easily watch this movie with kids.

So, finally, although Girl Fight seemed like just an average drama movie, but I still enjoyed watching it. But I think the better than average IMDB rating of 6.4 (while I’m writing this) is a little overrated for this film. Anyway, I’ll recommend watching Girl Fight to all drama movie fans. 

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After Fall, Winter Movie Review

After Fall, Winter

                                                      

After Fall, Winter is romantic drama movie released in 2011. This movie is the sequel of the 1997 film Fall, which is made by the same filmmaker. After Fall, Winter is written and directed by Eric Schaeffer, same as its prequel, who also stars in the film as a leading actor. The other major characters of After Fall, Winter are played by Lizzie Brocheré, Manuel Bonnet, Anna Gaylor, Akéla Sari and Sylvie Loeillet.

After Fall, Winter tells the story of a fallen writer, who comes to France and falls in love with a young woman. Everything was going fine between them until he learns that his new manuscript has been rejected by every publisher and then he decides to torture himself by a dominatrix.

Eric Schaeffer and Lizzie Brocheré in a scene of After Fall, Winter

Plot:

After Fall, Winter starts with Sophie, who helps people to take their death a little easily. But secretly she earns her living as a dominatrix, who performs BDSM on men for money. She has a good number of clients.

Then we see Michael, who lives in USA and is a fallen writer. Although he has some of his fames left, but when some publishers reject his latest manuscript, he becomes frustrated. He also has a few thousand dollars debt. At this time, one of his friends from Paris invites him to come over, and Michael goes to Paris.

Soon after reaching Paris, he loses some money by the trap of a gypsy woman. Then he sees Sophie at a grocery store. He falls for her just then and tries to talk to Sophie. She gets irritated by him and so pretends that she does not know English.

Next time, they meet again while renting a bicycle. Although Michael offers her a lift, but finally she carries him in the front basket of the bicycle. Sophie doesn’t give him her phone number when he asks. Next time they meet again at a yoga class. Michael keeps on being persistent. After the second class, Michael gets success and has a conversation with Sophie at a coffee shop.

After that, they become close and start to spend their times together. Michael tries to understand what is happening around there from Sophie. Before long, they grow a sexual relation between them. Both of them have little ups and downs in their relations, but the chemistry between them works pretty well. But when Michael asks Sophie about her career, she hides that she is a dominatrix. Michael also has a thing for BDSM, so he takes that service from another dominatrix, about which Sophie doesn’t know.

All these times, Sophie is trying to help a girl who is going to die soon by Leukemia. At first, that girl gets irritated by Sophie’s presence, but then she starts to like Sophie. Sophie takes Michael to that girl and that girl also likes him. Sophie also takes Michael to her mother’s house in Christmas.

After returning from Sophie’s mother’s house, Michael calls his agent and learns that every publisher has rejected his manuscript. He becomes deeply depressed. To torture himself, he calls his dominatrix for her service. But she says that she is not working as it is Christmas and she refers another dominatrix to serve Michael.

Now we all can guess who that another dominatrix is, yes, its Sophie. But before entering the room, she sees Michael, and then she comes there wearing a mask. So Michael doesn’t recognize her.

After their session, the two lovers meet at a bridge. There Sophie says she doesn’t want to carry on the relation with Michael anymore. Michael lies to her about his BDSM session and Sophie also lies to him for making him hate her.

After she leaves, Michael becomes more frustrated and visits another dominatrix who can kill him. Sophie goes to that patient girl. By that girls words and by finding a letter from Michael, Sophie gets her feeling right about him and after calling her friend (who referred her to Michael), learns where Michael is headed. She then runs there to stop him from his suicide.

My review about the movie After Fall, Winter:

I liked the movie After Fall, Winter, but mostly at its end.

The plot of After Fall, Winter was good, specially the ending was nothing I could guess. But the problem was, most of the other parts of this movie were boring. It is a long movie (for about 2 hours and 11 minutes) and most of the times were spent by showing Michael and Sophie talking. There were some subplots (about the gypsy woman and about the dying girl) but they were not enough to make After Fall, Winter interesting. Throughout the movie, there was not much element to keep me interested. This long movie could become much better if the same story was shown in about one and a half hour, subtracting all the unnecessary scenes and dialogues from it.

The direction of After Fall, Winter was very good, but I think the problem was with the screenplay, showing all these boring scenes. The only interesting part of the After Fall, Winter started from about 20 minutes from the end. But do not underestimate it. The ending is good enough to make your heart racing fast, which is not very common specially in a romantic drama movie.  The tragic ending will surely make you sad.

The acting of Eric Schaeffer and Lizzie Brocheré in After Fall, Winter were very good. Both of them matched perfectly with the characters they were playing. Beautiful Lizzie Brocheré looked stunning in After Fall, Winter. The dialogues were okay, but sometimes seemed boring. The make ups, set design and the costume design, the location, the lighting and the camera effects were also very good in this movie. The music and the soundtrack at the end were also beautiful.

For several male and female nudity, don’t watch After Fall, Winter with kids.

So, finally, although I was bored while watching After Fall, Winter, but I liked this movie for is unusual ending. For anyone who is not a big fan of romantic dramas, it may be a little tough to keep watching the first one and a half hours of this film, but if you can endure that, I can guarantee that the ending will make it worthy. So I’ll recommend watching After Fall, Winter to all romantic movie lovers. At least, its worth giving a shot.

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Robocop Movie Review

Robocop

                                  

Robocop is a science fiction action movie released in 2014. This movie is the remake of the classic sci-fi movie of the same name from 1987 and a reboot of that Robocop series.  The screenplay of the new Robocop is written by Joshua Zetumer and the movie is directed by José Padilha. The major characters of this film are played by Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman,  Michael Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson, Abbie Cornish, Jackie Earle Haley, and Michael K. Williams.

Robocop tells the story of 2028, where a badly wounded police officer is given robotic body parts to keep him alive, which makes him half man and half robot and turns him into a super cop.

A scene from the movie Robocop

Plot:

Omnicorp is very determined to make the use of drones and automatic robots popular for inland use for public security, which is now already deployed in foreign country. They also have a spokesperson who lectures about its benefits on the TV, but the use of this kind of equipments are prohibited by Dreyfus Act. So they are looking for a perfect candidate, who will have some damaged body parts replaced by machines, which will make a positive impression among people about machines for security.

In the meantime, detective Alex Murphy and his partner are following a lead to catch a powerful crime boss. They are on disguise, but some corrupt police officer alerts the crime boss. It starts a gun fight, by which, Alex’s partner becomes badly injured. Alex becomes more determined to catch that boss, which makes him a target for them.

Alex is living a happy life with his wife and son, and one day, the crime boss’s men set a bomb in Alex’s car. The bomb goes off and Alex becomes very critically injured.

Alex seems like the perfect candidate of Omnicorp, so their lead scientist Norton convinces Alex’s wife to replace Alex’s damaged organs with robotic parts to save his life. She gives permission and Alex becomes the Robocop.

After waking up, Alex cannot accept his new body, but soon, after hearing everything, Alex accepts it. He is given arms and training by Omnicorp’s military technician and Norton. He also visits his family after he gets a little comfortable with his new body.

The military technician doubts Alex’s ability to fight compared with the other full robots. In a simulation, he is proved right. Norton then makes so modifications in Alex’s brain, for which, when he fights, the computer takes over Alex’s decisions and makes him a faster, better soldier. A real fighting test is again conducted by Omnicorp between Alex and the technician’s robot team, where Alex proves that he is more efficient than both of men and machines.

Before an event, where Alex is brought in front of public for the first time as Robocop, Alex starts to have emotional problems. To solve it, Norton lowers Alex’s dopamine levels, which makes him almost emotionless. Alex performs his duties perfectly there, but ignores his family.

As Alex joins the police force again, he becomes the super cop and successfully brings the crime rate to a very low level. But he keeps ignoring his family.

At one time, his wife faces him and tells him the condition of his son. At first, Alex becomes confused, but soon his mind takes over the decision making computer parts and leaving everything behind, he starts to solve his own case, where he was attacked.

He attacks the headquarter of that crime boss and kills him. He then kills the corrupt police officer. When Alex was about to attach the police chief for her corruption, he is turned off by Omnicorp.

The Omnicorp CEO uses Alex’s success to show his company’s credibility and a repeal agaist the Dreyfus law rises. Meanwhile, Alex’s wife tells the press openly that she wants to see her husband. Feeling that Alex’s presence is no more important, the Omnicorp CEO decides to turn Alex off. But before that, Norton reaches to Alex, wakes him and tells him everything. After knowing the facts, Alex feels betrayed and heads for the CEO of Omnicorp.

My reviews about the movie Robocop:

I saw the old Robocop movies long time ago and I don’t remember them well. But I was a big fan of the Robocop TV series. Comparing with them, I didn’t like the new Robocop movie much. But considering other things, this one is still a good movie.

The plot of Robocop was good, but it seemed too congested to me. A lot of stuffs were clustered in one movie, where none of the robot versus human conflict, the crime fighting or the fight against the Omnicorm became very prominent. I think the direction was good, but the screenplay was far from what it could be. The director could focus on any of them and could make that prominent to make this movie better.

I think in this movie, the Robocop lacked the personality what he had in the 1987. Seeing the computer-decision-making part taking over while Robocop fights was not a thing I liked. This movie also had a good number of villains. But one of the major villains, the mob boss, was killed in just a few minutes fight. The other villain, the technician of Omnicorp was also not very major. But the thing I hated most in the movie was seeing the Robocop without his robotic body. I don’t know why the director had to show that several times.

When I first saw the trailer, I didn’t like the black suit of Robocop, specially comparing with the old silver colored suit. But in the movie, the suits looked modern, high tech and pretty cool, suited better in this time. It looked even better with his motorbike. This Robocop is also more technologically advanced than the old one. The old Robocop had some pointy thing coming out of his hand, which he used to communicate, to hack computer and to charge his batteries. But in this movie, how he is getting power is not shown.

The acting of all the major characters in Robocop were good. Same goes for the dialogues, make ups and costumes. The special effects were also very good. But I think a more important role played by Samuel L. Jackson could make this movie better.  

There was no nude or gore scene in Robocop, so you can safely watch it with kids.

So, finally, I think Robocop is a good movie. The old Robocop fans may or may not get disappointed by watching this one, but everyone else should like it. But as a fan of the old ones, I think, even if not worse, the new Robocop remake does not give any improvement over the old one either. But I will still recommend watching the Robocop to everyone, as it seemed like a good movie. And this movie ends with a lot of potential kept for the sequel, so I’m eagerly waiting for that.

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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World Movie Review

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

                                                                                                                  

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World is a romantic comedy drama movie released in 2012. This movie is written and directed by Lorene Scafaria. The leading characters of the movie Seeking a Friend for the End of the World are played by Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, Martin Sheen and Derek Luke.

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World tells the stories of two strangers who has come close when the time of the earth is coming to an end.

Keira Knightley and Steve Carell in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Plot:

At the beginning of Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, we learn through a radio announcement that an asteroid is going to hit the earth in three weeks, and it will destroy the mankind. Dodge is going somewhere with his wife in a car and after hearing this announcement, his wife leaves.

Dodge tries to live his life normally where almost everything around him becomes chaotic. People have started to stop working in their offices and no one in interested to take a higher post.

Dodge visits some of his friends who are having a party. At that party, Dodge's friend wants to hook him up with another lady, but Dodge doesn't get interested. At one time, Dodge's friend herself wants to make out with him, but Dodge refuses to that too.

In his apartment, Dodge sees her neighborhood girl Penny crying on the fire escape. Dodge brings her inside and learns that she has broke up with her boyfriend and missed a flight, by which, she was supposed to get to her family and to spend her last days with them. Dodge also learns from Penny that his wife was having an affair with someone else.

Penny hands Dodge his letters which were mistakenly delivered to her for last three years. There Dodge finds a letter from Olivia, the love of his his life, which came three months earlier and told him also 'the love of her life'. That night, a riot is going on nearby. Dodge goes to warn Penny and finds her boyfriend with her in her apartment. Three of them tries to escape from there, but only Dodge and Penny manage to run away with a car.

The car was running low on fuel and soon they have to stop. Dodge is mad at Penny for not delivering the letter from Olivia earlier. Then they make a deal, that is, if Penny helps him to find Olivia, he will help her to reach her family.

They take lift from a man in his van. But soon the man is killed by assassins whom he hired earlier. Dodge and Penny bury the man and continues their journey with his van. On the way, they stop at a restaurant with over-friendly people. After the dinner, Dodge and Penny have sex in the car.

In that night, while they are again continuing their journey, they are stopped by a policeman and then sent to jail for the problems with the van. They are released on the next morning. They head to one of Penny's ex-boyfriend's home nearby, who is a military man and is fully prepared for the apocalypse.

From there, Penny talks with her family on the phone. That man offers only Penny to stay with them, but she refuses. Then they borrow a car from him and continues there journey.

Once they reach Olivia's home, they find the house empty. They spend the night there and Penny finds another address of Olivia. They go there on the next morning, but Dodge doesn't meet Olivia, just leaves a note for her. Then Dodge and Penny goes to a beach where there are a lot of couples and they enjoy each others company.

That night, they reach Dodge's father's house. Dodge and his father is meeting after a very long time and this meeting takes the bitterness out of them. Later that night, when Penny is sleeping, Dodge takes her to her father's private airplane and asks him to take Penny to her family. Dodge then starts his return journey to his home.

Will Dodge see Penny again before the world ends? Can Penny finally go to her family? Let's watch the movie to find the answers.

My review about Seeking a Friend for the End of the World:

First of all, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World seemed like an average romantic movie.

The plot of Seeking a Friend for the End of the World was good, but predictable for a romantic movie. Although the ending of this movie was predictable, but the whole plot was innovative, not what we regularly see on most romantic movies. But it still felt like it could be better. Their journey could have more interesting stories in it. At some parts, where they were talking, it felt boring. Less dialogues and more actions could make this movie far better than it is. The direction and the screenplay were okay.

The acting of all the major characters were good. The acting skills of Keira Knightley and Steve Carell needs no endorsement and here in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, they have done no misjudgment to their names. Both of them perfectly portrayed the characters they were playing and their performance were outstanding . The dialogues of this movie were also good.

The make ups were good too in this movie. The lighting and the camera effects were also pretty good.

There was no nude/violent scene in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, but it had some scenes with drugs. But overall, I think this movie is safe to watch with kids.

So, finally, i liked watching Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, although, from time to time, it seemed a little boring. If you are a fan of romantic drama movies, this one can be a good one for you. It has a innovative and different plot than other typical romantic movies. But if you are not a big fan of romantic movies, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World may seem more boring to you.

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Silent Night Movie Review

Silent Night

                                       

Silent Night is a horror thriller movie released in 2012. This movie is a loose remake of the 1984 film Silent Night, Deadly Night. It is also also loosely based on the real events of 'Covina Massacre'. Silent Night is written by Jayson Rothwell and directed by Steven C. Miller. The main characters of the film Silent Night are played by Malcolm McDowell, Jaime King, Donal Logue, Rick Skene, Ellen Wong, Andrew Cecon and John B. Lowe.

Silent Night is about a man who disguises as Santa Clause at a Christmas Eve and kills the 'sinners' of a small town. The sheriff of that town and the deputies try to stop that man.

Jaime King in a scene of Silent Night

Plot:

Silent Night starts with the sequence where a man wearing the dress of Santa Clause wears a mask. He then kills a man who is tied to a chair.

Next, on the morning of the Christmas, the deputy sheriff Aubrey gets up from her bed by the call of the sheriff. The sheriff asks her to join the duty, as they are low on manpower. Aubrey tries to avoid it, as she has lost someone close recently and it is the first Christmas after that, so it is a special day for her. But after the sheriff's pressure, she agrees to come to her office.

The mysterious Santa Clause next kills a little girl who behaves very badly with her mother. After reaching to her office, Aubrey hears that another deputy is missing, and the rumor is, he has ran away taking another man's wife with him.

Aubrey hears a report about a man making the children cry and she goes to investigate it. She then finds a man who is spreading depressing messages among kids about Christmas. She warns that man. Following another report, she goes to house and finds the first victim of the killer, dead. It is the deputy sheriff who was missing. She also finds the body of his girlfriend in that house. Being inexperienced, Aubrey cannot handle the situation properly. Then the sheriff reaches there. He tells Aubrey that they are on their own in this case, they have no other help in this vacation.

The killer then kills two ladies and a man who are involved in making soft porn. In the police station, the sheriff and the deputies try to find a suspect and to stop the killer. They are desperate for some clues. Meanwhile, the killer kills the perverted father of the local church. Aubrey finds a suspect who somehow matches with the killer's profile, but before she can arrest him, he runs away. From that man, Aubrey learns the story of a man who killed his wife (who was cheating on him) and he is now killing people on every Christmas Eve on a different town.

Aubrey has some arguments with the sheriff about the identity of the killer. Next, while the sheriff is informing the mayor about the killings, the killer kills the mayor. Then the killer kills the mayor's daughter and her boyfriend.

Aubrey finds her suspect again, but this time she kills him. Then she finds a common sign given by the killer to his victims. Following the sign, she finds her father dead in her home. The sheriff also has that sign, and to kill him, the killer Santa Clause attacks the police station.

My reviews about the movie Silent Night:

Silent Night seemed like just an average horror movie.

The plot was good, but nothing special. It was something that we have seen in a lot of horror movies. The ending and the identity of the killer in Silent Night was something a little different from regular horror thrillers, but still no big surprise. The direction and screenplay was good.

There was a little mismatch in the plot of Silent Night. That is, how the killer managed to carry all those weapons with him all those times, and how he could know the 'sins' of all his victims didn't seem realistic.

The acting of the main characters were also good. The make ups and the dialogues were good too, but nothing extraordinary. Most of the killing scenes of Silent Night looked realistic. The music, the lighting and the camera works also looked good.

Silent Night has used several dark humors and they were also not bad.

There was some nude scenes and a lot of gore scenes in the movie Silent Night, so in no way you should watch this one with kids. Moreover, this film can give a wrong message to children about Christmas.

So, finally, I enjoyed watching Silent Night, but not much. Watching it will not give you any extra good experience than other regular horror movies. I'll recommend this movie to you only if you are a big fan of horror movies with a lot of gore scenes. Otherwise, skipping Silent Night will not be a big miss.

Ending Explanation of Silent Night:

This part contains spoiler, so I've written it in white font. If you have watched Silent Night and curious about the ending, select the below part by dragging you mouse to read the ending explanation.

Remember the story Aubrey heard from her suspect whom she killed later on? On one Christmas Eve, a man killed his wife with a flamethrower who was cheating on him. At the end of Silent Night, we see the cops arrived at that scene and killed that man. One of those cops' son was sitting in a car nearby and his father was killed by fire after shooting that man. Seeing his father killed this way, the son becomes maniac and he is the killer in Santa Clause's disguise.

Also, at the end of Silent Night, we see the killer's musk was burning on the police station's floor without anyone around it, and then we saw a man with burnt face, that indicates that the killer is alive and he will kill more people in future.

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300: Rise of an Empire Movie Review

300: Rise of an Empire

                                                  

300: Rise of an Empire is an action drama fantasy movie released in March, 2014. As anyone can guess, this is the sequel of the epic film ‘300’. It is based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel Xerxes. 300: Rise of an Empire is written by Zack Snyder, Kurt Johnstad and Frank Miller and directed by Noam Murro. The major characters of this film are played by Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey, Hans Matheson, David Wenham, David Wenham, Rodrigo Santoro, Jack O'Connell and Andrew Tiernan.

300: Rise of an Empire tells the story which happened before, during and after the story of its prequel 300 and the Greeks' attempts to stop the Persians from taking their homeland. 

 

Eva Green and Sullivan Stapleton in a scene of 300: Rise of an Empire

Plot:

The plot of 300: Rise of an Empire starts 10 years before the battle happened in 300. The Persians came to conquer Greece, but they got defeated by the superior tactics of Greek general Themistocles. In that battle, Themistocles kills the Persian king, who was the father of the next king, Xerxes. Xerxes comes back to his land and with the help of his father’s naval commander, Artemisia, gains his power and emerged as the ‘God King’. Artemisia was a cruel but extraordinary intelligent warrior and general of the navy, who had a shady past and was seeking her revenge on the Greeks.

10 years later, Xerxes is now again invading Greece. Themistocles manages to convince all the states of Greece to provide him ships, with which, he will stop the Persian army at the sea. He then goes to seek help from Sparta, where he learns that the Spartan king Leonidas is consulting the oracles. He comes back to his town. With the help of his friend who also works as a spy and infiltrates the Persian troops, Themistocles learns the nature of Artemisia.

Themistocles, with his troops and ships, comes face to face with Artemisia’s troops in the sea. For the first two attacks, Themistocles successfully stops the Persians from advancing and with his brilliant tactics, make the Persians retreat. The Persian army loses a good number of soldiers, where Themistocles loses only a few men.

Impressed with Themistocles’s intelligence, Artemisia invites him to her ship. She uses sex to convince him to join her team as her second-in-command. Themistocles refuses and he is sent back to the land without any harm. But he knows that Artemisia has become mad and next day they are going to face a very tough battle.

He was not wrong. On the next day, Artemisia uses her brute force and maximum of her powers to destroy the Greek ships. Both side faces heavy losses and believing that Themistocles has died, Artemisia retreats with her troops, where Themistocles is luckily saved.

On the land, Xerxes has already killed king Leonidas and has started to destroy Greek cities. Themistocles visits mourning queen Gorgo (king Leonidas’s wife) of Sparta and again asks for her assistance, where she again refuses. Before leaving, Themistocles hands her king Leonidas’s sword and asks her to avenge him.

Meanwhile, Artemisia learns that Themistocles is still alive and is again preparing for a battle. She starts for that battle without her king Xerxes’s consent. They have a little argument between them.

Themistocles’s soldiers are depressed by their loss and the refusal of their call of assistance by the Spartans. But as a perfect leader, Themistocles inspires them to fight and take their revenge. He also makes some special arrangement for himself in his ship to use on the battle. So, with his troops, he comes face to face again with Artemisia.

Sullivan Stapleton in 300: Rise of an Empire 

My review about the movie 300: Rise of an Empire:

I liked this movie, but not as much as its prequel, 300. If you are a big fan of 300, this one may even disappoint you.

The plot of 300: Rise of an Empire was good. But if you are interested to learn about what happened after 300 ends, here is the first disappointment. This one also ends without giving an exact result of the war between the Persians and the Greeks. Just like its prequel, 300: Rise of an Empire ends within the war without telling us the fate about the Greeks.

The cinematography of 300: Rise of an Empire was also good, but not as good as 300. The use of fantasy was also less, we didn’t see much of the gigantic creatures or magic.

The acting of all the characters were good. Specially, Eva Green’s performance was outstanding. Her character was also so powerful and important that several times, it felt like she was the leading character of 300: Rise of an Empire. But none other characters were as charming as the characters of 300. Almost none of the charms of the character of king Leonidas were here at the character of the hero Themistocles. His character was also not as strong as that of king Leonidas of 300. Even king Xerxes’s and queen Gorgo’s character in 300: Rise of an Empire did not seem as powerful as we saw in the prequel.

But what I missed most in 300: Rise of an Empire was the epic dialogues from 300. Although the dialogues were good, but they were nowhere near the epicness of the dialogues of 300. I really missed something like “Tonight we dine in hell”, “Madness? This is Sparta!”, “Give them nothing, but take from them everything”.

The use of special effects also seemed inferior in 300: Rise of an Empire than its sequel. Most of the special effects were limited to showing bloods in slow motion.

There are a few nude scenes in 300: Rise of an Empire. For those and other gore scenes, this is not a movie you can watch with kids.

I think if the director thought that the success of the movie 300 came only for its plot, acting and cinematography, but not for its characters and dialogues, then he has made a mistake. I loved the whole movie 300 for its art and everything from the beginning to the end seemed very artistic to me including the fighting, the gore scenes, the nude scenes and so on. But the sequel 300: Rise of an Empire lacked severely in the art.

But don't get me wrong, 300: Rise of an Empire is still a good movie, but it falls behind if you compare it with its prequel. If you are fan of 300, then you must watch 300: Rise of an Empire. Even if you feel a little disappointed, but you will not feel you time wasted by watching it.

Don't forget to visit the wikipedia link of 300: Rise of an Empire. You will find a lot of interesting historical facts about those wars by browsing the links given in the article.

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