Ugh

Rating: 3/10 (31 March 2005)

Please. How Hollywood could this have been? Changing the story so that Hector's wife and baby escape through some "secret tunnel" instead of being captured as a slave and killed, respectively? Making Paris and Helen seem somewhat heroic? Achilles dies inside the walls of Troy trying to save his lover? A "duel" scene between Menelaus and Paris? Um, did the folks who made this movie READ the Illiad? The original story is so much richer, more tragic, more heartrending. It seems that in trying to clean this up and make it a vehicle for The Brad, they've taken the heart out of the story. There is no one with whom to identify, not even the truly tragic and principled Hector, who was the best part of this piece of ick. The complexities are gone. Wishy-washy and weak. Blah.