Troys inaccuracies

Rating: 2/10 (18 February 2009)

The first problem with this movie is that they completely forgot that The Iliad didn't end with Troy being sacked, it ended with Hector's body being returned to Priam. They only gave credit to Homer and the Iliad and completely neglected to mention Quintus of Smerna's War at Troy which follows the Iliad. The Trojan Horse is not in the Iliad but instead in The War at Troy. Quintas lived around the same time as Homer. The mistakes in this film are almost endless. They forgot about the Amazons, They forgot about Memnon. They forgot that Achilles never makes it into the walls of Troy. By the time The Trojan horse is built, Paris is supposed to be dead. Brieses is supposed to be one of the many women that Achilles captured when he sacked the Isle of Lesbos. She became his wife. About the only thing they got right was Achilles character and that was it. In my opinion, the only way the entire story of Troy could be properly told is through an extended miniseries. I had this movie and decided to get rid of it because I just couldn't stand some of my favorite literature being mutilated that bad. In my opinion, if they only wanted to give credit to Homer's Iliad, than they should have ended it with Hector's body being returned to Priam and the peace treaty that followed, no further.