Awful

Rating: 3/10 (31 July 2005)

OK - so the guy can't direct anything with Gods in it so he takes them out. Fair enough. He assembles a cast of a thousand accents. Fair enough.
But Brad Pitt's accent? Give me a break. I've seen Pitt (and not just for the flesh) and he can act so what happened here? His voice is SO completely wrong it was hard to concentrate on anything else. The story "inspired", rather dragged from, the Iliad lacks any sort of emotional power without the gods and the hinted-at homosexuality.
If you like sword & sandal flicks you may get into this, otherwise, beware.
p.s. Eric Bana and Peter O'Toole shone in a lacklustre casting