Story line is a bit expected and simplistic

Rating: 7/10 (15 May 2004)

I have read this story in high school and I after watching this movie I wasn't very impressed with the interpretation of the original story.
1)I was hoping that a prologue with background history will be present to set a mood to the story.
2)Lack (very much) of god in the movie, only Thetis mother of Achilles was present. It would be a cliche but if they kind of info-graphic (like in HellBoy) for the heroes and semi-god it would make it much more fun to watch.
3)Patroclus wasn't his cousin. He killed a companion in an excess of anger, exiled himself in Thesallie where he Achilles lived.
4)Apollo never showed up, it says Apollo helped Paris to hit Achilles in the ankle. Achilles suppose to be invincible everywhere except in the ankle. His weapons and armors are suppose to be made by gods.
5)The list of things goes on and on...
This is an ultra-conservative portrait of an outdated braveheart style (we have seeing too much mindless barbaric fighting, there is like only 2 scenes worth mentioning in this movie, Hector vs Achilles, and the first siege battle; we need technical battle scenes, for godsack) with the special effect of Mummy and cheap acting of Star Wars prequels. This movie really messes up my feeling about the "maybe worth watching" the up coming King Arthur movie.
I would say that this movie is soulless, lack of technical fighting(army formation, strategic commands, logistics depiction), lack of human emotion (Greek mythology is like Shakespeare plays, it's full of tragedy, you don't get great emotions with a story, but with ppl acting on them. There is too much climax little to build the tension around it. It's too raw to be enjoy it, I got numb near the end of it. I never felt an urgency in this movie.), lack of grandiosity (I did not feel that Troy was a great city). Agamemnon wasn't evil enough...
I will stop here:P If I wasn't a war movie fan I would rate this movie a 5.