in and out

Rating: 9/10 (15 June 2004)

This film ISN'T a deep study on human nature, nor an original approach to a 'war tale'. It doesn't invent cinema nor tries to play with its language. It doesn't display huge battles with 'grandeur', and it is neither an audiovisual challenge, as 'LOTR' is, Peter Jackson's entertaining toy full of special effects for your eyes and ears.
In the other hand, 'Troy' IS an outstanding action film because it shows one of the best battle tactics and maybe the best one on one fights ever, inside an undisguised war film; because it gets close to this war so harshly that it inevitably becomes anti-war; and, above all, because it reminds us (maybe vaguely; sadly, this film is far from deeper tales as Dalton Trumbo's epic script in 'Spartacus') that the most interesting special effect is, simply, the story.