A beautiful desecration

Rating: Null/10 (14 May 2004)

Just got out of the theatre. Basically, it's a pretty good movie, and so long as you consciously forget(or just don't know) about what happened in all the originals, you'll like it. I'll avoid spoilers, but suffice it to say that it was a VERY loose adaptation of the original story. Just like some other movies I've seen, it would have been pretty good had it just been a ripoff instead of claiming to be the original, that way there's far less disappointment about how badly they botched most of the details(and a couple of major plot points, too). Casting was excellent(all of the characters did a good job, and whoever played Helen is right up on my hot-women list right about where Helen of Troy should be), the fights were sweet, and all the other stuff worked too, but the story was simply too far removed from the original for me to be happy.