Little bit bombastic entertainment with good acting

Rating: 8/10 (8 June 2004)

Troy is a film with very, very good dialogues and a lot of brilliant actors. I especially liked Sean Bean aka Boromir as Odysseus, but Priam, Hector, Archilles, Briseis, Agamemnon and many others where very good as well.

The effects where also very good, even if they where a little bit bombastic at times. But the actors and the story still got most of the screentime.
The original story has been modified very much, but thats not a bad thing, because this way the movie isn't just a mechanical repetition. Of course, many important scenes are now left out, and some things happen at a different time. And the movie story contains now almost no gods anymore, except that some people still believe very much in them and Archilles is told that he will die in Troy.
I've been told that this movie and 'The day after tomorrow' are in concurrence to each other, as both Peterson ('Das Boot') and Emmerich ('Independence Day') are directors from germany. But in my humble opinion, Troy is the much better one of these two.
Troy is a good entertainment movie and I think I can recommend it.