Quite Good

Rating: 8/10 (9 July 2004)

First thing I will note is that for a 2:45 film, I checked my watch once. And only once. Was this the greatest epic film ever? No. Was it one of the better films this year? So far, absolutely. The one complaint I keep seeing is that the movie isn't anything like the original story of the Illiad. In seeing this film, I don't believe that a retelling of the Illiad was the intent. It seemed more like a recreation of the Trojan War using the Illiad as source material (Since an actual history of the war is somewhat hard to come by, if it even exists.) I thought it was quite well done, and that it felt like what one would immagine Ancient Greece and Troy to look and feel like. They also tried to make it more "real" than legend (Achilles is "immortal" only because no one can even approach him in combat skill, and not through divine birth.) And, personnally, I liked that aspect of it.