Eternal Hollywood

Rating: 4/10 (16 May 2004)

An epic film with great battles, nice costumes, camera, effects etc. but so shallow. It's a shame when uneducated people are writing scripts and making films. Homer won't be sleeping well in his grave anymore. When I was a high school pupil they were teaching us that Agamemnon didn't kill Priam and wasn't killed by a girl called Briseis?, that Priam jumped off Troy's walls, Achilles wasn't inside the Dureian Horse, Agamemnon took Helen back to Greece and there was killed by his wife Clytemnistra. They were also teaching us that Hector didn't kill Menelaus and that Paris when he killed Achilles, was dragging his body with his chariot for three days outside Troy to bring fear to Greeks. And oh my God, names like Boagrius, Tecton, Glaucus, Velior not only they are not ancient Greek names but they look like that came straight out of 'Xena' or 'Hercules against the Incas'. The result is at least laughable. It's a shame to spend almost $200 million and make a film like that, with no particular reason to change the story. After wasting 2 1/2 hours and £10 in the cinema, watching Troy, I start wondering that maybe my teachers in school were ignorant and uneducated. And maybe that Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were Cubans. Well done. And don't forget to make a sequel titled 'Troy 2'.