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King Leonidas may have famously taken his small group of 300 Spartans to hold off a Persian army at the narrow pass of Thermopylae, but that's not all that was going on back in the late 400s.

There was also a little thing called the Persian fleet to deal with. A thousand ships strong, this incredible armada had the capability of smashing every Greek boat and port it encountered. It could also land troops behind Leonidas and his men and make their mighty effort moot.

There are several mentions of this new idea called democracy that's slowly blossoming and uniting the Greek people. And Themistokles talks of the value of sacrificing for "freedom," saying, "Let it be shown that we chose to die on our feet rather than live on our knees!"

Indeed, while this pic may be the cinematic equivalent of a bloody knife to the jugular, it does depict men staunchly facing impossible odds and fighting on for the sake of their friends and countrymen. It bolsters the idea that a few fighting bravely for good can result in a victory over overwhelming forces that battle for evil.

That's where the Athenian general Themistokles must step in. He only has a handful of ships to work with, but he and his army of farmers and craftsmen are skilled and determined. Themistokles, you see, has special strategic insights learned through years of war with those dreaded Persians. And he and all his men hold a passion to see this new idea called democracy sweep through the Greek city-states and set every man, woman and child free.

That spiritual evil is certainly a part of the equation here. The dying Persian king Darius tells his son, Xerxes, "Leave the Greeks to their ways, only the gods can defeat them." Artemisia takes that as an ethereal sign and convinces Xerxes that he must then become a "god-king." And so he gives himself over to "the darkest of evil" and steps out of a pool of water transformed into a 10-foot tall man-god.

Later, when Artemisia meets with Themistokles, she senses something powerful in him too, and she wonders if there's a "spark of the divine" in him. (Themistokles assures her he is but a man.)

On the opposite side, of course, is the god-king Xerxes and his million-man force. He wants nothing but the subjugation or utter destruction of Greece. And he puts Artemisia (a Greek woman who had been raped and abused by Greek slave traders since childhood) in charge of his Persian fleet. He is not to be disappointed in her, as vengeance flares in her eyes―an evil blaze as ferocious as the flames of Hades.

Muscles are bulging. Weapons are at the ready. And hearts are pounding with rage. The battle will be fierce. The carnage will be savage. The sea will run red The 2007 blockbuster 300 was a grandly reshaped, intensely violent, graphic novel-inspired reimagining of an actual historical event in which 300 Spartans stood against a Persian army of hundreds of thousands.

300: Rise of an Empire similarly recounts the concurrent Greco-Persian seagoing Battle of Artemisium. It also jumps back to the Battle of Marathon to give us some historical context and then forward to the sacking of Athens and then back to … well, let's just say this tale isn't particularly linear. And if you don't know your history, you'll likely be left scratching your head.

Of course, historical accuracy and attention to timelines don't really matter much with this kind of flick. A 300 movie is designed―with its chroma key tech, unsaturated colors, gelled lenses, slo-mo flesh hacking and Hollywoodized script―to be more of a blast of bombastic beefcake-in-a-blender than anything resembling believable biography.

If anything, there are more orgiastic gouts of blood splashing the scenery than even the first 300 seemed to muster. And now that women warriors are added to the mix, there's also some hard-fisted misogyny to get tangled up with.

This film revels in glistening abs, bronzed muscles and screamed grunts of "gaaaah!" as limbs are lopped and throats are slashed. Or to put it a slightly different way, the camera lingers on bare breasts and ripped torsos as those muscled specimens slam into one another in savage sexual encounters or fatal fights. It's all coated in splashing geysers of blood and gore that gush from a bigger-than-life version of frenzied, slaughtering, mythical battle.