Yet another Hollywood rape of a good story

Rating: 3/10 (18 October 2005)

Once again, Hollywood writers can't think of something original. Greek myths all contained a moral, most of them were about human nature. This particular one has been turned into a story about a coward (played by heart-throb Orlando Bloom)that steals another man's wife and gets away with it. His brother and father get killed for his sake and his country is destroyed, but he gets away in the end. So I guess stealing another man's wife isn't considered a bad thing to do in Hollywood. I guess it doesn't PAY to let a thing like morality to get in the way of your pursuit of the Almighty Dollar.
In the Greek myth, Paris gets what he deserves in the end.
Casting Brad Pitt as Achilles was an excellent call, though. Achilles was handsome and extremely vain. Casting Sean Bean as Odysseus was good too. Pretty good visual effects, and good acting for the most part.