So much potential

Rating: 3/10 (22 August 2005)

Such a great story.
Such a shallow rendering.
I don't understand why they needed to trivialize so many of the relationships and change so much of the plot. Agamemnon's vanity is too trite. Hector is not nearly represented as the great warrior he was. And Patroclos was no warrior at all.
The best (and it was fabulous) was Sean Bean's rendering of Odysseus. Sly, confident, tricky, desirous to be home with his wife. He was a treat.
Read the book. There's much more drama and action in it.