Homer is Spinning in his grave

Rating: Null/10 (30 May 2004)

This was ugly, cheesy ugly. Why didn't the producers be honest and call this movie "Brad" instead of "Troy"?
Blonde Greeks who look like Vikings with the kind of golden tans seen on a sun and surf holiday. Special effects that scream "CGI, CGI!". Putrid dialogue bearing no resemblance to the heroic language of Homer's poetry.
If there was a saving grace to this film, it is Eric Bana and Peter O'Toole, each of whom bravely, like the Trojans they portrayed, fought an ultimately doomed battle with the substandard script and stock directing.
Homer has been subjected to a horrible Hollywood holocaust. Stay away if you can't bear the stench. A half point out of 10.