Hit And Myth - w/Spoilers for a spoiled film?

Rating: 4/10 (8 June 2004)

As a story in its own right Troy is okay, and Brad Pitt was correctly chosen to be the powerful yet arrogant and self-destructive Achilles.
His fight scenes reminded me of Jet Li, and were the best things in the picture... Eric Bana playing Hector actually made me root for the Trojans for the first time!
But being a Greek Mythology freak, I was annoyed for a number of facts!
Troy fell around 1184 BC not 2000 years ago, Patroclus actually was older than Achilles - it's even possible they were lovers...
They had no involvement of the gods, there was no attempt by Odysseus to avoid war by pretending madness - I could go on and on and on, bah!
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