Where did the intrigue go?

Rating: Null/10 (9 June 2004)

To say this is the greatest movie achievement of many years is a lie! The Iliad has many interesting intrigues to tell of and only a handful made it to the silver screen. And it wasn't the fun ones either... I missed the gods. This is not a story about a war in the name of love. This is the story of some stubborn, spoiled and bored gods. I've seen other screen versions of this story but they didn't forget the monsters, gods and legends. The sad thing for these version was their lack of technology. They couldn't make the sea monsters look believable. But today we have that technology so I have all right to be disappointed that it wasn't used for this film.
Also, I would like to hear an explanation why the story was shortened from seven years to fourteen days. I wanted to see some desperation instead of Brad Pitts love scenes.
I'm OK with changing the perspective by exchanging the hero of the story from Odysseus to Achilles by you should still stick to the story. His weak heel wasn't mentioned once.
/ magnolia