Taking the Myth/Legend out of a Myth/Legend leaves us with....

Rating: 5/10 (11 August 2007)

not much of a story. You see, the Fall of Troy had already became such a great myth/ legend by the time the ancient Greeks RE-told it, because not much was actually known about it-- so story-tellers "took in" all the myths/ legends, which made it into such a great myth/ legend. So modernizing or humanizing such a story by "taking out" the myths & legends risks taking away its context and significance, unless the resulting gaps in characterizations, social backgrounds, critical events, etc. can be "filled in" in an equally meaningful manner.
But all the movie does is retain the bare bones of the story-telling with impressive production values-- it is quite watchable but possibly the least interesting version of the Fall of Troy I've come across.