What a disaster...

Rating: 2/10 (14 January 2005)

Aside from being totally INACCURATE, Troy serves to "please the Hollywood masses", that is, to appeal to a shoot'em up audience, interested in only action and adventure.
First of all, Paris was NOT a hero. He was a coward, and only shot Achilles with an arrow once, before fleeing. Secondly, in Homer's Iliad, Agamemnon is killed by Clytemnestra after returning to Greece. Thirdly, Patroklos is NOT Achilles' cousin, but rather, his close friend and lover. Fourth, the Greeks are supposed to be the protagonists in the Iliad, and the Trojans in the Aeneid, so which viewpoint is the movie taking? Lastly, without going into the many other mistakes that the movie made, Troy simply failed. It was decent entertainment, while I drank a beer and fell asleep. But based on literature, the film is TOTALLY inaccurate.
WATCH GLADIATOR INSTEAD !!!