Oh well

Rating: 4/10 (3 January 2005)

Really, it could of done better. The plot was, well, so different from the history that it was almost stupid. First of all, the Greeks and the Trojans wouldn't be making peace, because they are already at peace. Helen's room would of been a lot more elaborately furnished, and a lot bigger. I mean, she is the wife of the brother of one of the most powerful kings of Greece. Why was Achilles portrayed as some adult? He would of been about 15 when he first joined the war, and disguised one of the daughters of Lycomedes of Scyros by his mother, Thetis, who has always been protective of her child, not training his "younger cousin". Patroclus was his cousin, and probably his lover, as it was popular among the young men, but Patroclus was older by at least a generation. Strangely the 10 year long war seems only a few weeks, are at most, a month. Then the characters. Achilles wouldn't of sacked the temple of Apollo, after all, he was half god. Menelaus doesn't survive to take his wife home; Ajax the Greater died a far more honorable death than he deserved; there was no plague from Apollo; Briseis was about to kill Achilles, when they end up having sex; Patroclus steals armor rather than loaning it; and Agamemnon doesn't survive to get killed by his wife. And another thing. My brother asked me why Achilles died from the arrow in his heel. They should of explained that part, because I don't expect all movie goers are history freaks. Overall, I think this movie will need a lot more work. 4/10