What's a four letter word for overrated crap? Troy

Rating: 1/10 (15 May 2004)

The season is disappointment has begun with hollywood regurgitating its 'blockbusters' for the next few months. First off is Troy. This film is incredibly overrated and deserves every bad word that has been written about it. The acting is remarkably pungnet, even the great Peter O'Toole is unable to redeem himself in this picture where the bulk of the 'acting' is supplied by Orlando Bloom and Brad Pitt (who's names are synonmous with the term overrated actor). The characterization in the film is even worse, never once de we really care about what a character is going through, never once do we sympathize, even scarcer are times where we understand their motivations. The Battle sequences are poorly done as well. Whenever the camera zooms in we lose all track of who we're seeing, if they're important, and even more ridiculously, we can't tell who is being hacked to death even. The long shots are decent, but proof that CGI has made moviemakers lazy. The poorest battle scene in film history is here, in the midst of a battle, all the soldiers stop suddenly because Achilies' dumbass cousin got himself killed. How are these thousands of soldiers supposed to stop to watch 2 idiots go at it? And to stop in the middle of a battle? I know this is a fantasy film but come on. The dialogue is ridiculously poor, considering one of the greatest literary works of human history (The Illiad) is its source. The ending is poor as well, I have a hard time understanding why Paris seems so unconcerned that his adored cousin is sleeping with the man who killed his brother and defiled his corpse. Maybe all those ass shots of Pitt got to him. Bloom, did get one reaction out of me. After backing out of a challenge he asks himself 'Am I a coward?' Yes, you are. You are also the most overrated actor since Tom Cruise. Still, maybe I shouldn't have been surprised at how poor this movie actually is. This film is 'directed' by Wolfgang Peterson, the man who gave us the abomination of patriotic stupidity that was Air Force One. For people who want to watch quality epics, there are far better films out there than this piece of crap.