Flawed, but Entertaining

Rating: Null/10 (28 July 2004)

I watched Troy for the 1st time yesterday, and to be honest, I quite enjoyed it. Yes, it was flawed in spots, and Deviates from "Historical Accuracy" whatever that means in this case. ( To me variations on multi-thousand year old tales sometimes can be OK)
My Biggest problem with this movie is the opposite of many of the others here. it was too short. Yeah, I know everybody has been whining that the movie felt too long, but I thought another 20 or 30 minutes if done right could have salvaged the whole thing. A bit more Character rounding out could have made this from a good, to a epic.
The Characters, although not well developed, were to me, good reminders of the characters in the Epic. Paris (Bloom) has been moaned and complained about for not standing out more, but frankly Paris always struck me as a bit of a ...wuss and so it must have seemed to the director.
Pitt Was pretty good as Achillies. Bana was very good As Hector.
Overall, this is a good but not great film, that has a good soundtrack, and is an entertaining watch. I give it 7 out of 10.