Could be better, but not bad in the long run.

Rating: Null/10 (26 May 2004)

They did do a fairly good job of condensing 10 years of warfare into 4 weeks. The film had all of the salient points of the epic although not necessarily in the right order or context.
I didn't think that Brad Pitt did as bad a job as other reviewers. He did show the obsession and range of emotions of the lunatic he was portrayed as. After all, the actor can only be as good as the role he is given. Orlando Bloom did show some excellent emotions at times. He shows that he might really have promise for more than a pretty boy with a little more work and the right vehicle.
Peter O'Toole was magnificent ( what else is there to say ). The rest of the Ensemble was very good. For some reason the part of Odysseus was downplayed. For me the best part of the film, was when Paris passed the sword of Troy to Aeneas. Without that the film would have lost all credibility.
All in all, I think that Homer would have been pleased with this visualization of his story that had been passed down by oral tradition for a thousand years.
I give the film 3 1/4 stars. Randy Bolton