Crowd pleaser

Rating: 7/10 (15 October 2005)

TROY Pulled this out from the old collection last night. Had never got round to watching it because, to be honest, I wasn't expecting much. Fair to say I was prove right.
Another movie based upon the Helen of Troy, Achilles and Trojan Horse stories. For a big budget movie, they cast pretty low budget, with just Brad Pitt (Achilles) and Eric Bana (Hector) in main roles, as well as Rose Byrne and Orlando Bloom in minor roles. The story is pretty well known, so not too many surprises, it was just going to be how the movie looked and played out. The movie holds your interest, although there are a few cringe moments, with some terribly poor or clichéd lines. The actors aren't given much to work with (obviously not much of the budget went towards the screenplay). There's some good action sequences though and a few decent scenes, overall a good movie to watch on a boring night at home.