Saw it last night, and was blown away by how much better it was than the 1st one! everything about the movie was better, particularly the CG sequences. Azlan looked incredible in this one, but he also looked great in the 1st one(R&H did a great job on the 1st one) the costumes were really good too, the sets of armor they wore were really well designed and quite cool to look at. as a whole I found this movie to be better in almost every way than its predecessor, and that includes the plot which follows the book pretty accurately from what i'm told(haven't read it yet myself).