As far as tactical genius goes, the character never earns that honor in the eyes of the audience. There are even moments when the enemy repeatedly refers to Themistocles as a tactical genius thanks to the earlier battles in the film, but those same battles are generally as simple as the Greeks kill more Persians. You learn very little about him, nor will you care. He begins as a one-dimensional warrior, and the film ends on the same note. Themistocles doesn’t have a character arc or any endearing quirks for the audience to cheer for. Like so, so many of Snyder’s characters, he’s an archetype, and a dull one at that, which means the bulk of his scenes are generally dull themselves, especially in comparison to the action-packed battles.
He doesn’t have any memorably goofy lines like “This is Sparta!,” and the speeches he does give are dripping with clichés could be cut and pasted from any of a dozen other war movies.
He’s an unremarkable character in a film that needs someone audiences can root for as they wade through buckets of blood. is the center of the film, and a hollow one at that.By comparison, Themistocles is much more stoic. (Don’t be surprised to see a sequel, box-office permitting.) It defuses any sense of horror the audience may be feeling from watching people butchered on screen with body parts flying everywhere, and allows them to cheer the brutality in what is essentially the middle part of an ongoing war. During the bloody moments – and there are many – that slowdown effect is also used to over-accentuate the spray of blood, which often comes out like a geyser, making it borderline parody. Murro follows Snyder’s playbook, infusing scenes with a mixture of slow-mo and close ups in a single shot. While the story is somewhat convoluted, the highlight of Rise of an Empire is the action. Eventually it does settle into a single, linear story, but that comes later in the film. Resolutions are achieved before the conflict is explained, and characters are introduced in the past by others in the future who themselves are then reintroduced at an earlier point in their timeline, although the audience won’t instantly know this. The highlight of Rise of an Empire is the action.The film jumps around in time, which frequently confuses the narrative.
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