Big let down

Rating: Null/10 (26 November 2004)

I've been looking forward to this movie since I first saw the trailer many months ago. And what a let down it was. 3 hours to tell an epic story is tough, but this is three hours of hair pulling boredom. I believe at one point I may have dozed off for a few seconds. From the beginning until the first battle was tedious to sit through. The biggest theme had to have been the glorification of homosexuality in ancient cultures. I think the major problem with the film was that the actors were too estranged from the audience. I never felt any connection with any of them. Their speeches were awkward, extended run-on sentances that were delivered professionaly, but with shallow emotion. I don't blame the actors for this but the script. Jolie has an accent that sounds like a vampire, and I never could figure out what Farrell's hair color was. Thank goodness I only paid matinÃ©e price.