![]() ![]() ![]() He's hailed as a hero, but secretly he's consumed by guilt for not killing the leader's son, Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro, the only cast member from the original “300” with a role bigger than a cameo), who has since become much more tyrannical that his father ever was. The Athenian army is led by Themistokles (Sullivan Stapleton), who killed off the leader of a Persian army years before. The new film is also dumb and violent, with the added failure of being unoriginal. It tells the story of a small Athenian army that stands up to a different version of the insurmountable Persian army around the same time as the Spartan army. “300: Rise of an Empire” is not that sequel. The ending set the stage for a sequel where armies from other Greek cities would band together to face the Persians with better odds. 2007's “300” told the story of a small Spartan army that stood up to an insurmountable Persian army.
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