pathetic in the wrong way!

Rating: 1/10 (26 January 2005)

A sad sad attempt to capitalise on "action-hero" potential in Homer's classic. The writer should be tied to somebody's chariot and dragged until he promised never to write a screenplay again. Brad, Orlando, Peter et al did their level best but were fighting a losing battle against a poor script. Brad certainly enlivened the landscape with his skirmishings. Shots of the aristocracy of Troy peeping over the battlements at warring heroes were positively Monty Pythonesque. And why, in an age when audiences are exhibiting a ravenous hunger for fantasy material, did they choose to leave out the gods? And how can we forgive them for filling up the screen-time with a sugary little love story while omitting such things as the great Cassandra with her prophecies of doom?