Not shirtless enough...

Rating: 5/10 (15 May 2004)

While the semi-nude Pitt scenes and shirtless Bana and Bloom were nice, it doesn't make up for the fact that the movie was way too long. Most of the characters were intolerable, save Bana's Hector and O'Toole's Priam. Even 'hero' Achilles was hard to like because of his frequent ego-trips and treatment of Briese before Agamemnon found her and after his cousin dies. Bloom's Paris is appropriately whiny and spoiled, so it's more amusing than heroic when the scaredy-cat brings down Achilles. When Hector and Priam weren't on screen, my interest was gone.