Cassandra: One serious omission in an otherwise great movie

Rating: 6/10 (10 November 2019)

I mostly love "Troy" -- it's the first movie where I felt that Brad Pitt began to act, and I appreciate the artful depiction of the myth of the Trojan War in a way that modern folks can relate to.
Normally, I want to rate Troy as 8/10, but feel compelled to drop my rating 2 full points, because Cassandra was omitted from the story. In my opinion, this omission would be tantamount to leaving out Patroclus, Achilles's cousin, from the story. The latter played a similarly small but vital role in the plot, and he was included in the movie.
Cassandra was the clairvoyant virgin princess of Troy dedicated to Apollo, whose prophecies were never believed, but always came true. She warned that the Greeks were inside the Trojan Horse, and she even tried to burn the horse itself. Her objections, if heeded, would have changed the narrative, perhaps averting disaster entirely.
To have her strong objection, in both word and action, to admitting the Trojan Horse into the city reduced to a couple of lines spoken by Paris is, in my opinion, detrimental to the entire otherwise excellent production.