Would have been better as a series

Rating: 8/10 (4 February 2009)

Before I say anything let me say this: Troy was a very good film, one of the best movies in an ancient setting I've ever seen. The battles were very entertaining, costumes were excellent, acting was decent and the story was almost spot on (a few characters met their ends inaccurately but its Hollywood, I'll let it go) my only problem with the movie was, they tried to fit an extremely long story with dozens and dozens of characters, into a film 2 hours and 45 minutes long. The story of the Trojan War, which is a 10 year long struggle, is a very exciting story if you like ancient mythology. The Illiad, which only tells of the ninth year of the war, could be a movie in itself. I would have liked it much better had they done it in a 8-10 part mini-series, much in the same way they did with 'Rome' (which was brilliantly done) This would have allowed them to include more characters (the famous charioteer Diomedes, the rest of the several Trojan Princes, Memnon of Ethiopia and dozens of others)It also would have allowed them to include other parts of the story such as Achilles battles with Memnon and Penthesilea the Amazonian Queen. It could be just me... but I think the story would have been much better done as a mini-series, but that does not necessarily mean Troy, was by any means, a bad movie.
8/10