The simplistic version

Rating: 3/10 (27 September 2013)

This is a reasonable enough attempt at the Troy myth. The fight and battle scenes are very good; the best part of the whole film. The technical aspects too are strong.
However where this film falls apart is that it is a comic book version of the story. The dialog is utterly banal. It's not bad; it's just boring and banal. It's all super heroes and super strength.
This myth is not just strong for the story, it's because it was treated by really great writers in a number of plays and poems. Homer, Aeschylus and Euripides were really great writers.
Take Euripides's "The Trojan Women" which was made into a movie in 1971. That retains the tragic destruction of war and the obsession with pride amongst other themes.
This movie has epic fights egos from the warriors but the other themes are all absent. The other characters, the women in particular are non existent.
For a young audience that lack of depth is probably fine enough but it's like so many film versions of classic works, its not even close to being the real thing.