300 rise of an empire is.... good!

i give it 4/5.
gory and graphic, great battle scenes. the sea battles in some ways remind you of red cliff 赤壁. fine performance by sullivan stapleton and eva green. gerard butler is there only in flash back.
this sequel to 300 is really about an historically significant event called battle of salamis in the greco-persian wars in 4xx b.c. the movie takes you to athens battling for survival before, during and after sparta's leonidas and his 300 were wiped out at the battle of thermopylae at the hands of persian king xerxes. at that time, greece was ununited with separate kingdoms of athens, sparta, olympia, argos, etc.
the soundtrack is excellent, much of it persian/middle eastern style. so, watch it in dts at least, best in dtshdma. and if you get there, you will notice the closing showed some graphics presumably from the yet-to-release comic from frank miller.... and the song "war pigs" by black sabbath - anyone here know black sabbath?
given the ending, we can sure there will be 300: III or something like that. that will probably depict the final greco-persian war(s) that sent the persians home leaving greece to continue on its path influencing all europe and the subsequent roman empire. the rest is history...