Wonderful entertainment!

Rating: 8/10 (28 June 2004)

As the sucker I am for historic movies, I had really big expectations for Troy. Well, besides for the fact that Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom has leading roles... I was a little afraid that it would be too much "watch Brad's sweaty boody" and that kind of stuff.
Well... it was a lot of sweaty Brad Pitt, but I guess it was okay. I think Brad Pitt did a real good job. Pitt played the anti-hero Achilles very convincing, in a way that we both had to love him, and hate him... Bloom was playing the prince Paris, who steals the beautiful princess Helen (Kruger) home, and starts the war. I think Bloom plays him well, but I really don't like how the script is showing him. I've read the book, and I actually think Paris should have been more heroic, not the sissy he is in "Troy". Eric Bana is playing Paris' older and much more heroic brother Hector, and he is Marvelous! He is like the Greek dream I waited for him to be.
All over, the movie Troy is a killer. Great war scenes, drama, love, heroes, death, friendship, hatred, revenge, battles, power, tactics, and the fight between good and evil. It has what a good movie needs. It delivers the goods!