Troy Boy!

Rating: 4/10 (31 May 2004)

Spoilers((( TROY wants to be "Gladiator", and all the others. This is a close to embarassing movie that keeps wanting to shock you with their battles, but it doesn't. Brad Pitt looks good, but plays awful as the brilliant Achilles. Orlando Bloom handles his part okay, but Bana looks just stupid! The movie isn't entertaining, it isn't fascinating, it isn't cool it isn't charming...it's not much of anything! Although the action scenes are well made, that doesn't help this movie from being such a stupid film.
And I think it's weird; they've got dozens of famous and good actors, a renowned director, and I mean - a huge budget- everything is in place for this to be a great movie. But, no, they've failed big time in that attempt that's for sure! Old, very make-up wearing Peter O'Toole is sick bad and Saffron Burrows tries being so emotional and touching, but no! And another thing; the movie is also surprisingly violent and that is maybe a sign from them that they're trying to bloody serious, stupid! And; why not just quit the story and dialog, and make Pitt, Bana and Bloom walk around semi-nude showing off their bodies, it gets just stupid, seriously!! It's bombastic, huge and big in many ways, but it's so freaking empty, so freaking stupid and there's always something not working! TROY is a long movie too! TROY: 2/5