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It's not a bad movie in any way, it's a good kid movie and there are plenty of pokemon to entertain young kids and pokemon battles between Genesect and various other pokemon. But if you're like me and you've been playing pokemon since the 90's this film is not going to be as good as for example Mewtwo returns or the movie 2000. Mewtwo and Ash act as if they've met each other for the first time ever, team rocket get barely any screen time and the only one of ash's pokemon that get any action is Picachu. This movie is primarily aimed at younger audiences like 3-8 because those of us who are 16 and above have been forgotten about by the pokemon company. But like I said, your kids or younger siblings will love it.

From not Zack Snyder, comes a well anticipated sequel to one of the most famous historical/action films of the past decade. Directed by someone whose best success so far is a comedy romance starring Sarah Jessica Parker and who is so unheard of that no one has even bothered to write a Wikipedia article about him. Seriously, look him up.

Okay so let me guess, you've noticed that the new 300 film is now available to download online and you're now thinking "Hm, I've got a few hours to waste. Why not?" Well here's why not: The story line is almost non-existent; you can tell that it has been rushed because they have pieced together such a big event into such a small run time. I mean come on, 3 major historical battles that balanced the fate of the world, squeezed into less than 2 hours of film.

It's like Noam hasn't even watched the first film, somehow in this film farmers we're able to kill multiple Persian Immortals single-handed whereas the Spartans, an elite fighting force of Greeks descended from Hercules could not. Also the characters are not portrayed as heroic in any way, Themistocles is shown to be weak to the hint of slight seduction whereas Leonidas basically told the God-king himself to go F#K himself. I find myself warming up to Artemesia rather than Themistocles.

The pace as I've vaguely mentioned is far too fast and each battle last no more than 3 minutes each. Noam tries to put as much action and gore in as possible to disguise the lack of story-line and structure, it's as if it was made by a bunch of film students with a few million dollars to spare. And at least in the first film there was some historical accuracy and Zack actually took into account the way Spartans actually fought during battle, yeah there was one unrealistic solo ninja fight scene but the rest was mostly accurate. But Noam, nope, ninja fight scenes here there and everywhere to entertain those amazed by the bright colours and fast moving images.

Okay yeah I'll admit some of the fight scenes are pretty cool, but for the above average intelligence action/adventure movie enthusiast it is just not enough to keep us glued to our seats.

Overall I would describe this movie as a complete let down, made by amateurs and starring people whose time and talents were wasted making this film. Yes I am being a harsh critic but I was a big fan of 300 and I expected so much more from this one. But if you're reading this I'd say you might as well watch it just to say you have but in my opinion this film should have never been made or at least should have never been entrusted with such an amateur director such as Noam Murro who has obviously never heard of any camera technique other than slow motion and cut-scene.