What destroyed this movie.

Rating: 8/10 (15 May 2004)

Well, After seeing this film I can tell you the one thing that made an amazing movie into only a good flick, the music. The music is terrible. Particularly the horrible song during the ending credits. The music of this movie just didn't connect well to the action playing out in the movie. And bongos or what ever drum was used for the climactic battle scene with Achilles and Hector, are not an effective means to convey the drama of the moment.
I don't see what the big deal is about Brad Pitt's Achilles. While there may have been other actors who could do the role as well as he did, he didn't do a bad job. The script could have used a little tweaking, a little less reminding to the movie going public that the Illiad is such a great and lasting work would have been nice. But all in all the music failed to convey the power behind the events, not the actors or the script.