Film average, Pitt infuriating

Rating: Null/10 (31 May 2004)

SPOILER I don't have much to add to the comments of the previous reviewers: I found the film generally impressive, but dramatically uninteresting. I would just like to point out that I found Peter O'Toole to be the only highlight really. Brad Pitt makes a great visual impact as Achilles, but I just cannot stand his acting. I found the difference in acting quality nowhere as evident as in the scene in which Priam visits Achilles to ask him for the dead body of his son. O'Toole acts this scene with great intensity and Pitt's facial expressions as he reacts to Priam's words are just plain amateur theatre group quality, really ruining the scene for me. And another thing: I may be wrong here, but it seems to me that in each of his films Pitt has at least one scene in which he is eating (in Ocean's Eleven it seems like it's the only thing he ever does), and I don't know why this infuriates me so much - perhaps because he always eats the same way, irrespective of his role, or because it seems again like such an amateurish acting device?