300 Part 2! 600!

Were you guys able to watch 300: Rise of the Empire? We were finally able to find time to watch the much-awaited sequel to 300 courtesy of our BDO Rewards Card. As expected the movie had all the gore, action, and super slow motion fight scenes that made the first 300 a massive hit worldwide. However one thing lacking was a strong central hero.

300: Rise of the Empire basically happens side-by-side the original movie and then shows what happens after Leonidas died. The main hero is the Themistocles, an Athenean commander. Unfortunately he was everything that Leonidas wasn’t. Themistocles was a bit too boring and didn’t have the same amount of passion and character that Leonidas had. He also gave too many “before-the-big-fight-last-speeches”. I think he gave around 4-6 of them. All of which paled in comparison to Leonidas’ famous “This is where they die” speech at the Hot Gates.

The main character, in our mind, was actually the villain — Artemisia, a Persian commander who was an abused and orphaned greek. Eva Green played this character wonderfully and despite her being super weird (like making out with a severed-head weird), we ended up cheering for her and even wanting her to win against Themistocles, hehe.

Everything considered the movie was fun to watch especially in the second half. Lots of gore, action, and uh… more gore and action! Hehe. The ending was also awesome and from the looks of it we will be seeing 300 part 3 soon.

How about you guys? What did you think of 300: Rise of the Empire? Let us know in the comments section below!

By the way, we were able to watch the movie using our rewards points from our BDO Rewards Card. If you activate your card before the end of March you can actually get 100 bonus points (equivalent of 100 pesos) which you can use for everything and anything SM. For March you can even use it to pay for tickets in their theaters including IMAX.

Visit www.bdo.com.ph/bdo-rewards/activate for your BDO Rewards card activation.