Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) got the theme for his War Requiem "Sanctus" from the music score...

Rating: 5/10 (20 March 2005)

With so much music being scored (and having been scored), there are eventually going to be similarities between scores from time to time. However, the score for this movie was really distracting to both myself and my wife because that one grandiose theme (I think it first appeared when Hector, Paris et al are greeted at Troy) sounds toooooo much like the Sanctus of Britten's War Requiem. There is some saying about imitation and flattery, but this was just too close. If the James Horner has never heard the War Requiem (which I doubt--any serious 20th/21st century composer will know Britten), than I have newfound respect for his creative abilities.
On a different note, I think that the LOTR trilogy has wrecked every other epic genre movie for me because everything falls in their shadows. It's hard to be impressed any more, which is too bad because I typically enjoy Petersen's movies.