What you would expect from Hollywood

Rating: 8/10 (5 February 2005)

As a Greek, I've been taught many times our ancient literature. Yes this movie has plenty of inaccuracies, omissions and alterations compared to the original. But so what, Homer was NOT an historian, in fact "Homer" most probably was an imaginary name given to a pleiad of people that crafted this story throughout the centuries. Nobody claimed after all this to be Iliad. And you know what, if you stop playing "spot the inaccuracy", this movie is actually enjoyable! It felt great to have all these war time heroes of my childhood on the silver screen! Spare the cheesy dialogues and love stories (both Hollywood compulsory), the characters were pretty accurate in their behaviours. This was what I had in mind for most of them. What I didn't like was the active effort to capitalise on the Lord Of the Rings success (by means of same graphics, same battle sounds, same battle choreography, even same actors). Let me finish by saying that this movie have received too much unjust criticism. It is just a movie, for Zeus sake!