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Rating: 4/10 (10 June 2004)

A real disappointment. Historical movies are so scarce these days that I badly wanted to like this movie more than anything in my decent movie going history but had to watch in between my yawns how in a tediously boring way the movie was parsed together. I really miss the old Hollywood style of using real actors in situations where thousands of extras were used (read Spartacus) to visualize the mass battles. The CGI effect of copying the same thousand extras here was too easy to notice and for me it flattened the visual glory of what it might have been.
Brad gave a good performance, Sean Bean was again as natural within his acting maneuvers as a freezer full of frozen ashes and Eric Bana couldn't unfortunately rise above the acting in Chopper or Hulk. Bright star here was Bloom as whimpering gayish Paris.
And the ships would have been seen from Troy many many days before they were actually even near the coast if the movie was supposed to have been shot on Tellus. Some sort of surprise attack at this kind of situation would only have been possible in the minds of ignorant movie makers.