Why does The Iliad need alterations?!

Rating: Null/10 (6 September 2005)

What a fiasco this film turned out to be.
What a shame that they set themselves up for a no-win situation, whether it was by arrogance or sheer ignorance. Did Homer not do a good enough job with the story? Did Hollywood have to rescue it?...
By ignoring major aspects of the correct plot and altering other aspects of the plot, they've come up with something only someone neither familiar with nor interested in the original might like, much less be able to follow. The wrong characters are involved in the wrong subplots, the wrong people die at the wrong moment, and so on.
I guess a story 4,000 years old just wasn't interesting enough, it had to be changed...
-4 points for messing up Homer's plot.
-2 points for leaving out the Gods. Would they make "The Ten Commandments" without incorporating that mythology and that god, and would that film make any sense?
-1 point for only exploring love between men and women and ignoring the Achilles- Patroclus connection.
Don't bother renting this and only watch it on cable if nothing more cerebral is on -- this of course would include anything like "South Park!" What a mess.