Fascinatingly flawed

Rating: Null/10 (17 May 2004)

They got everything wrong. I mean everything!
Even when they didn't have to mention something, they just threw in random comments just to be wrong! They mention Paris growing up with Hector when he was ten -- it's a complete throwaway line that no one would have missed -- just to be WRONG since Paris was being a shepherd on Mount Ida when he was ten because his parents had him taken out on the mountaintop and had him exposed!
And I loved it.
I spent the entire time completely fascinated by the story and astonished by just how changed it was. The ending? Complete surprise.
Three days later, I am still thinking about the movie and am still scratching my head over it. I had a great time not only watching the movie, but also talking about it later. The changes do such strange things to the story.
And yet it still manages to show the war as something unpleasant conducted between two sides that are fully developed and sympathetic.
So very wrong. I think if the movie had been scripted more closely to Homer's Iliad, then I might have liked it less... it would have been less of a spectacle... less bizarre.