300: Rise of an Empire... may focus on the brawny Greek and Persian battles of the 480-479 BC era, but it also presents a kickass group of complex women characters whose sexual prowess is as mighty as their swords.

[The story] gets constantly literally swamped by the blood and gore and so forth, which is well done but almost to the point of parody.

The big box-tick here is that it is the women who ultimately command the impressively surging CGI hordes on both sides.

Nothing is more impressive than the first time around, even their Athenian pecs aren't as inhuman.