Properly not titled The Iliad

Rating: Null/10 (15 May 2004)

First off, if you're expecting the movie to be entirely based on the Iliad, full with Gods and Goddesses, you're watching the wrong movie. This is an adaptation from Homer's classic, yet from an anticipated historical perspective. There are changes in the story as to what happens to make it more realistic. All that said it was wonderfully done.
As a side note, how come every time there is a release of a movie in pre English speaking times, the majority of the actors speak with a British accent? That kind of hit home, as not all of the actors spoke as such (Pitt and Bana mainly) though the dialogue was fairly easy to understand.
For the most part, if you've read the story recently, you'll have a basic understanding of what will happen. That doesn't discount the fact that the questioning of if it will be done correctly, which to me it seemed a perfect perspective for today's majority of non-polytheistic viewers.
Troy showed amazing attention to detail when it came to everything else. The fight sequences were right on, with some accounts as being almost blow for blow as they seemed in the story, with dazzling fighting by Bana and Pitt. The costumes, the vessels, city detail, costumes and the coloration of the garments were vividly represented of the times, where colors were limited to single colors and majority of blues, which were prevalent of the available dyes of the time. It also left appropriate spaces available for the continuation into renditions of the Odyssey and the Aeneid as well, which leads me to believe with an exceptional turnout at the box-office, that the other two will begin production shortly.