An Iliad for the Mills and Boon set

Rating: 2/10 (22 May 2004)

This movie is very pretty and has absolutely no depth.
If you're fond of Mills and Boon romance novels, then you'll recognise many of the cover illustrations in the pouting good looks of the actors on display here, and the turgid dialogue will sound like the finest literature to you.
For the rest of us, only about 10 of the (almost) 180 minutes are worth watching. Every scene Peter O'Toole is in is worth watching, as is the second fight between Hector and Achilles.
In the absence of a screen play with any depth, a smarter director would have cut the length of this film by half at least.
Avoid.