All hype, no movie

Rating: Null/10 (4 June 2004)

This is a stereotypical example of how major film studios will take a perfectly good story and change it to produce a lousy movie. The story has only been around a couple of thousand years, but they had to change it and not for the better. All the parts that made it a good story are gone, and instead you have a mindless extravaganza with no real point. Helen of Try, the face that launched a thousand ships, is cast as a standard Hollywood bimbo, there is nothing special about her at all. You can't even sympathize with her or Paris, just wonder why anyone would do so much as play a game of checkers over her, much less lay siege to a city. Miscasting, bad acting, lousy screenplay, lame fight scenes, there is just nothing good about it.