amazing rendition.......

Rating: Null/10 (15 May 2004)

I went to TROY despite my personal feelings about Pitt in the lead role and was not disappointed to see that he turned out to be the dud that I had expected, much like Cruise in THE LAST SAMAURAI, and seeing his bare bum did nothing to enhance my feeling.......yet there were redeeming qualities despite the fact that they cast Pitt as Achilles. I found myself hoping, altho I know only too well what happened to the city of Troy, that the Trojans would win.....as they were so much more interesting than the Greeks......LOL......I think that Eric Bana as Hector was a thousand times more interesting than Pitt and also found Sean Bean as Odysseus more interesting.....I almost hoped that Pitt, and his motley brigade, would somehow be cut down as they hit the beach ahead of the others....why people have complained about Bloom is amazing to me.....he portrayed a young and very inexperienced prince of Troy......but in the end showed his goods when he took out Achilles with his bow and arrows, thanks to LOTR training.....lol....they cast the perfect personality for Paris....altho why anyone would see Helen as worth starting a war is amazing to me. The cousin, sorry cannot remember her name, of Hector and Paris was more watchable than Helen at her best..battles were interesting especially when the Trojans rolled the bails of hay or whatever they were down the hill into the Greek camp......I found NONE of the Greeks, but Odysseus of any interest......half way thru the film I was wondering if the director intended for me to feel that way??????.......the part about them finding the horse and looking at the leftovers on the beach apparently loaded with plague.....what kind of mind drags a horse, that came from a plague infested camp,into a city???????