New “300” Movie Epic Hits The Target
I’m still not sure I’m willing to endure the multiplex for this flick, but reviewers like Variety’s seem to want me to: ‘Few recent tentpoles have lent themselves less naturally to a sequel than Zack Snyder’s “300,†a movie in which nearly all the major characters died, while a brief coda showed a unified Greek army about to lay waste to the remnants of Persia. But Snyder and co-writer Kurt Johnstad handily surmount that problem in “300: Rise of an Empire,†which offers a “meanwhile, back in Athens†story to complement the Spartan narrative of the first film, along with an even higher quotient of impaled torsos, severed limbs and rippling Mediterranean musculature.’
