Movie deserves IMDb's top 250

Rating: 10/10 (23 July 2016)

This is the movie which led me to write my first review on IMDb. I don't remember the count how many times I have watched this movie, 20 or may be 30. First time I watched it in my engineering, may be 2007, and since then I don't think any year has gone without watching it. And every time I watched it I liked it more. I think the movie is really underrated and strongly feel it should be in IMDb's top 250 list.
People complain about the treatment of the movie with respect to actual story of books. I have read the summary of Iliad and Odysseus, and I think it is converted into 2 hours-43 minutes movie very nicely. Characters are unforgettable and portrayed excellently. I don't think anything could be better than Eric Bana as Hector, Brad Pitt as Achilles. Even if you watch the movie only once, you will have Achilles and Hector injected into your brain. People complains about the fight between Achilles and Hector that there wasn't the pain. Not sure about those arguments, but I am sure about one thing you wont be able to hold yourself without watching the fight again. Acting of other characters Paris, Agamemnon, Priam, Odyssey is also very good. Orlando bloom and Sean Bean of LOTR and both are of Troy, I was amazed to see the how they carried themselves into the characters. There is no villain or hero in the movie, only characters, which are driven by their thinking, desires, greed, love, rage, passion, family, country etc. And I think that's how the real life is, there isn't a definite line between good and bad. Dialogues are awesome, the opening dialogue "Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves: will our actions echo across the centuries..." and the closing one "If they ever tell my story, let them say I walked with giants, men rise and fall like the Winter wheat but these names will never die.." are my favorite.
Last but not least, the music of originally released version of Troy wasn't good (which I think spoiled movie's initially). However the DVD version was released with updated music, which carries movie very nicely.