Boring

Rating: Null/10 (21 May 2004)

Unless you are a die-hard fan of Brad Pitt, or you just love choppy, quick-cut camera shots of hand-to-hand combat, or you just need two or three hours of extra sleep, save your money. This has to be one of the most boring summer blockbusters ever released. The plot was --- well, what plot? Boy takes king's wife, king brings army of 10,000 to get her back. No suspense, very predictable. The script was trite and non-intelligent -- a junior-high student could have written it right after he read The Illiad. A couple of beautiful actresses playing the wives of Paris and Hector helped the drab scenery of the movie (desert, beach, sea, and rocks). In short, "the gods were not with this movie."