An good film if you are trying to strive for something historical!

Rating: 8/10 (9 March 2007)

This version of the "Iliad" works well if you are trying to do a film that is straight historical in nature. It is epic and it fills up the screen with battles and glory and tragedy. Brian Cox and Brendan Gleason are suitably irritating as Agamemnon and Menalaus. Brad Pitt pulls off Achilles well. Orlando Bloom makes a handsome Paris and Peter O'Toole is a dignified Priam. But Sean Bean steals the picture as the wily and wise King of Ithica, Odysseus. Especially excellent is the Troy set. You actually believe that the city is almost invincible.
I would still like to see a version of "The Iliad" with the mythology back in. It is on that level that the story has existed for almost three thousand years, and the Gods and Goddesses of ancient Greece were as much a part of the civilization as the people. Having said that I will still give this film a double thumbs up.