Ehh. (**1/2)

Rating: 5/10 (8 June 2004)

Ehh, the (**1/2) is more a rating for a few select scenes that are pretty awesome rather than the whole, because as a whole, this movie didn't engage me very much.
As Achilles, Brad Pitt isn't bad, but he looks like a surfer and sounds like one when he speaks. Eric Bana is pretty good as Hector, the most sympathetic character in the film.
So two good fight scenes (especially the one between Pitt and Bana), a few good battle sequences, and a very good scene between Pitt and Peter O'Toole. That's the awesome stuff, everything else ranges from alright to dull (and the dialogue sounds like a medieval soap opera most of the time).

It looks really nice, but in the end it's more exhausting than entertaining.