A mediocre movie at best

Rating: 5/10 (15 May 2004)

This movie never knows what it wants to be when there is casual reference to a gang rape that is supposed to be taken seriously because Achilles truly loves her and you think she is being it comes off funny and the audience laughed. It would be like laughing when they killed william wallaces wife in braveheart.
The music was also kind of campy and then serious and battle like it just did not seem to work. The actors played there roles well but the director was never able to pull it off.
Then why he decided to compress a 10 year war down to two weeks is is beyond me theres was to express time in a movie. Helen was taking back by meanlous in the book, Agamenon survived insteaad of getting killed by his war bride but I guess Petereson never plans on directing Electra. I am not some one who thinks that everything should be the same but the main points should atleast reflect homer especialy that noone survived and babys were thrown from the walls.
In the end its just a mediochre movie but if you are an illformed person our ignorant of basic greek history and mythology you will like it. The Achilles Hector fight I will say is probably the best fight I have seen.