Plot derailment?

Rating: 6/10 (15 May 2004)

The film started in my opinion rather badly, since the lack of decent accents by the cast kinda got to me, Brad, Bana and Bloom are all very good except for the accents. they really hamper the film in its early stages.
Once the invasion of troy begins things pick up. the Bloom single combat scene is where the film turns around for the better. the rest of epic in content and deliverance. the way that it shows the armies reliance on the main characters for leadership and victory is different than in most films i have scene and works vey well. The end is really let down as it seemed to me that they left out a few key scenes that would have rounded the film off nicely. the film takes to large a focus on Achilles and not on Helen and Paris. since they were (aside from the giant greed issue) the cause of the war, it would make sense to have some sort of reflection on how so many people died for the love of 2. but they dont. and it really let the film down.