The Good The Bad and The Ugly

Rating: 8/10 (10 February 2009)

* What worked: The battle scenes, the 1000 ships thru the Aedrean sea, anything CGI was GREAT!!! The script was as good as expected in putting 24 Illiad books into 3 hours to be shown to people who chances are do not know who Homer was. The acting was solid...Brad Pitt was Achilles thru and thru. The Illiad is mainly about Achilles rage, and in that sense it accomplished its deed.
* What did not work: (Besides the changing of the story: Agamemnon, Menelaus, Ajax do NOT die in Troy for example) One of the main points of the story is that MIND is stronger than STRENGTH... Thet it was Odysseus who unravels the frustration of the Greek inability to penetrate the Trojan walls. The Trojan horse is a small detail and because everything is shown as if ti was a 2 week Greek vacation, Odysseus genius and brilliance is lost in the process.