An interesting premise, but

Rating: 4/10 (17 May 2004)

in the end it managed to very nearly put me to sleep. There was no divine intervention nor any supernatural events which made the story rather inconsistent at points (e.g., Paris shooting Achilles in the heel is nonsensical without the divine elements)and lacking the 'punch' needed for an epic level story. Achilles' fighting style was uneven, at times bordering on corny. Brian Cox is unpleasantly one-dimensional as Agamemnon, Sean Bean is under-used as Odysseus, Eric Bana suffers as Hektor under cliché after cliché, Orlando Bloom is useless, and Diane Kruger does not engender enough lust to launch 1000 ships. The special and visual effects were OK, but overall this is Trojan War Fat-free with Splenda.