Nice, but not perfect.

Rating: 7/10 (19 May 2004)

First of all, When I heard about that Troy movie, I told myself, *How could they make a 2 and an half movie about a war who last 3 years???*
It's easy to compare that kind of adaptations with great epics like *The lord of the rings* but they also missed a point: why did they have to choose a side for the audiences??? I mean, M. Petersen could decide to let the two gangs as neutral as possible (Why wasn't Priam (Peter o'toole - very great in this movie; very emotional)the bad guy who let his son kidnap the beautiful Helen and be Menelas, the great noble warrior who come to save her??)
Beside that flaw of script writing, the fighting scenes let us thought about old epics like SPARTACUS and many others) that was something great to watch.
Another good point: the character of Hector and Achilies. Their purposes were very noble and actual, Sean bean (Odysseus) portrayed as well his character, pulled apart from Brian Cox side and Brad Pitt side.
(by the way, I guess that M. Petersen loved to see the Saddam Hussein statue falling, he reproduced many times that image)
A good history movie who won't make history.