i can't recommend it

Rating: Null/10 (15 May 2004)

Disappointing movie - technically, I thought the battle scenes were good, but there didn't seem to be anything that distinguished one scene from another; there was no emotion, no heightened sense of excitement as the movie progressed. I will tell you that I saw the movie with my husband and niece in a crowded theater, and there was a lot of laughter from the audience during scenes that weren't supposed to be funny, such as Achilles screaming "Hector!" over and over, just before Hector comes out to do battle with him. I will also tell you that when Achilles died, the twenty-something girl sitting next to me started to cry - which was amazing to me, as (sorry Brad),except for the scene where he learns of his cousin's death , I couldn't find one shred of emotion in Brad Pitt's performance that I could connect with.