Don't look a gift horse in the mouth

Rating: Null/10 (15 October 2019)

From a historical perspective, this film is barely sticking to the legend and takes many liberties. Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom hold starring roles, playing Achilles and Paris respectively, and seem to have forgotten how to act beyond staring intensely and shouting. The sensational battle scenes are fantastic, gory, and deliver all the promised Greek carnage, which does make up for the lack of dimension and reliability of the secondary characters. There is so little time devoted to establishing character relationships and relies instead on the common knowledge that relationships exist between husband and wife, cousins, and lovers, rather than showing any evidence. The film does present the lack of moral alignment well, as it is never made clear who is the protagonist and who is the antagonist, which is how war should be portrayed, from an objective perspective.