boe_dye sez: For some reason this had all the elements of a soft core porn...

Rating: 5/10 (19 April 2008)

Yeah, it was weird like like.
With Val Kilmer being the only person in this movie who was not beautiful and pretty, I got this weird vibe that everyone wanted to have sex with everyone.
Now sure, the Greeks were known for a lot of things. Sexuality being one of them. However, while this movie did have absolutely gorgeous shots and scenes, the whole sexual undertones were just plain weird.
Consider that Jolie is a year younger then Farrel really didn't help matters much, and would kinda sorta explain the ease of the oedipus complex that was being portrayed.
And it wasn't so bad to hint that there might have been something going on between Leto and Farrel's Characters (for possible historical interpretation) it was over played.
As i started to say in the beginning, this movie had all of the elements to make a soft core porn. Jolie wanted Farrel, Leto wanted Farrel, Farrel wanted Jolie Leto and Dawson (well sorta at first)...
In the end it wasn't really that great of a film, and i've kinda come to expect that for some reason out of Oliver Stone.
All and all this gets an "Eh".