Paris - loser without honor

Rating: 8/10 (16 May 2004)

I guess the moral of the story is "do unto others then split." Seldom have we seen such a loser as Paris - steal the girl, cause a war and thousands of deaths, chicken out of a fight, fill a more skilled warrior from a distance with a bow because you are too yellow to fight the man fairly.
What do you supposed Homer is trying to say here? Paris of 3200 BC reminds me of cowardly people in present times (Osama for example). No honor.
As Worf would say - what a Patak.
The filming is good and the fight scenes, especially the single combat scene with Pitt, are done quite well. But there is something missing which prevents this from being a truly great epic (as Gladiator was).