Not bad, but not the Iliad.

Rating: 5/10 (17 August 2004)

I might have liked Troy better if I knew nothing about the Iliad. Troy is not an adaptation of the Iliad, it is based only VERY loosely upon it. This movie just uses the names. Without giving away spoilers, some characters that are major in the Iliad are given very short shrift here.
It's an OK movie if you can watch it for what it is, and understand that you are NOT watching a movie version of the Iliad. This movie comes about as close to the Iliad as would a Xena version. It does provide entertaining spectacle, and hopefully people will become interested enough to learn about the actual legends.