As Good As I Could Expect

Rating: 8/10 (13 June 2009)

Anyone who is familiar with the famous works of Homer knows that his two greatest epics were the Iliad and the Odyssey. Troy is of course and adaptation of the former, and incidentally not my favorite.
As far as casting goes, I think the filmmakers got it right. I was certainly proud of them for getting Sean Bean as Odysseus, my favorite character in the bunch because of his intellect, cunning, and grander scale adventures in the story that follows.
Alas I knew that the movie was going to be a mess of action with some choice dialog here and there with no real understanding of who's on the side of right. After all, it was just a petty issue of jealousy that generated an onslaught of genocide. How is someone supposed to feel watching a bunch of people you know to be doomed or a horde of rivals that are unlikeable? I was really only interested in seeing Troy for the depiction of events I remember from the epic. With some artistic license, they truly got it spot on. I'm reminded of that adage, "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." Whoever came up with that obviously wasn't a Trojan.
In the end I really wasn't cheering for the winning army because of their crafty maneuver to penetrate behind enemy lines. It was all-out slaughter at that point.
My final remaining hope is that through all this, I can hope to see a depiction of the Odyssey that was done as well as this. The technology and talent is certainly available.