Crap

Rating: 4/10 (7 January 2005)

A quick review:
Blood and more blood. A superficial film.
Its commentary on war is laughable. Most of the characters are one dimensional. There is little character development. Especially for Paris. No subtlety in the performance leaves the character of Paris an idiotic enigma. No real love and/or passion between Helen and Paris also leaves the movie in many ways pointless and heartless. The classical Greek literary conflicts between destiny and choice, and piety and hubris are given superficial consideration. The only memorable characters (and well acted) are Hector and the Trojen king. The Achilles character has no rime or reason. He choices the glory of war over peace but later in the film complains that he had no choice and was born to be a soldier. (I doubt that this character conflict was intentionally created because the last line was read in a middle of what passes as a silly attempt at character development.) In short, virtually nothing pulls you in and makes the viewer symphasize with and truly understand the characters (aside for Hector). A good action flick but little else.