Surprisingly good!

Rating: 10/10 (25 January 2008)

I had doubts about this movie, but I loved it. The reasons are: -This movie follows the Iliad pretty closely. If you disagree, read the Iliad by Homer again. But opposite to the fairy tale of Homer, the world in the movie looks realistic. Which is also good, I think.
-The movie does not try to exaggerate the scene elements (the city, weapons, Trojan Horse, other things). For example, in traditional Hollywood movie, the warriors from Trojan horse would just kill everybody in the city at night, but in this movie they only do what they could do - open the gates.
-The behavior of the Iliad characters is natural. The Odysseys looks and acts like Odysseus. Hector, Priam, all others follow their historical characters. You may disagree, but that's my opinion.
-The landscape is beautiful, sunny and shiny. Opposite to 300.
-Brad Pitt is very convincing as Achilles. He acts great, he looks great and fights great. Apparently, he is the main character of the movie.
Sure, some Hollywood-ish things do present in the plot (like love story of Achilles), but I personally have no complains about it.
I would suggest to watch the movie in HD, it looks really spectacular. I really enjoyed it!