Good movie - but not better then good as one might try to convince you

Rating: 7/10 (15 May 2004)

Although the story is awesome one can not comment on the story, the story is from Homeros, the biggest poët in ancient Greek. What the movie is doing is making a commercial ripp-off from that story. It is not honouring the poëtry in any way: there is a "commercial" interpretation of the texts, and there are faults in it, more, all the poëtry is ripped out, eg: where are the beautiful feathers on the helmet of Hector, his epitethon ornans?
So if it is not that, one might think it is the good play that makes the movie great. Well, some actors do very well, but the one most in the scene (Achilles aka Brad Pitt) isn't really coming over, when he's crying it is almost ridiculous - sorry Brad. Whatever his looks are far better then that of Hector, he should be a hero, but he seems a newbie to the ancient scene. In the ancient story Hector is the best fighter of Troy, the great Hector owns them all, but in the movie he's a loser, he doesn't look cool, he doesn't fight cool and he doesn't talk cool, there is nothing cool or great on him.
So if its not the play, it might be the special effects? Well, not alot of special effects in this movie. The scene is quite nice, but the movie fails to really impress. We've seen those lot of ships in D-Day too, and we've seen that many soldiers in some movies before, so nothing really new to impress here. However the background and scenes are quite well worked out with a nice color sheme and lightning effect.
For the rest, the music is average. This all makes the movie a good movie (thanks to the great story of Homeros and the beatiful images, and to some of you also because of the steriotype love-scenes that are spitted out of the story and placed on foreground, or the fight scenes (although i found them also +/-)). But it isn't the best movie as the re are too many negative points.
But if you are wanting to see a movie to relax and are wanting to see something not to heavy for the stomach with some varying love/fight-scenes, this movie is like the one you need right now. Just don't espect it to be the best one and accept it's a commercial movie (not one with all the Homeros in it), then you can enjoy the movie. If you are searching more intellect, then forget about this movie.
If you read till here, i hope i could give you had something on it.
Greetings, Nick.