An insult to the Iliad

Rating: 1/10 (3 April 2017)

What the hell is this ? I could not believe Peterson would actually take the public, the admires and the legacy of the greatest poem ever told for idiots. This movie is based on the iIliad ? Since when are movies based on fictional stories ??????? Usually a movie is based on real events, but a fictional story ? That is a mind-blowing, and not just any story, the most iconic story that has lasted throughout humanity to the present day. Basically a few funny characters just stole names and rewrote one of the biggest defections displayed on cinema.
This poem was turned into a portrayal of real events- that's actually what is presented to you, as factual events, as if retracing Alexander the Great's expeditions. How ? The Iliad is a story within a mythology, how can it be factual ?
A lot of high paid and awarded actors participated in this movie, which was essentially the lone motivation for it: bringing up a team of "big names" except none of them are well casted and consequently cannot act.
Here's the story of the Iliad: it opens on a chant, the wrath of Achilles, who threatens to leave the Greeks because Agamemnon stole his captive Briseis. Agamemnon the leader of the Greeks who was awarded this expedition decided not to give up his own captive Cryseis, responsible for the pest Appolo sentenced on the Greeks. The siege has already been going for nine years and it took the Greeks ten years to prepare for it.
The entire Iliad leans towards Hector's death - he is Achilles' pendant, his choices, his greed all lead him to his final confrontation with Achilles. In reality Hector is a coward, he is marginal in his family, he disregards his wife Andromache and he believes Apolo will hit Achilles and offer him the victory. But Hector folds and flees away from away Achilles, embarrassing himself and Ilion by going around the city three times! The poem ends with Hector's funerals. Not Achilles'!
In this movie there aren't even any gods: where are Athena, Aphrodite and Apolo ? Where is Diomedes, Antenor, Stheneleus, Cassandra ? where are Patroclos' funeral games ? Why is Patroclos so young when he is much older ? Why is there the roman turtle formation ? Why is the landscape inaccurate ? What are Lamas doing in ancien persia ? There are so many characters missing and those who are present die when they don't.
The worst part is: where are the dialogs ? How can you possibly write bad dialogs if you base it on the Iliad ???? Where's the dramatic dimension, the tragic conjoncture, the struggle between destiny and fatality, excellence and cowardice ? In return we have Peter O'Toole and his 'will of the Gods' who sounds like he's making fish noise with his mouth - the lowliness of the dialogs "love your wife and defend your country", it is just unbearable.
Brad Pitt: drink cool aid, eat a pimento and stop looking at yourself in the mirror. Clearly, he tried to reach into a viril grave voice, but failed. Instead he sounds constipated much like Keanu Reeves in the Matrix "Trinity, I love you, but I really need to go to the can!"
Last but not least, the CGI aren't even that good, the fighting terribly disorganized, lead warriors would fight on chars and many historical inaccuracies regarding military equipment.
A very shallow movie.