Mother of God

Rating: Null/10 (13 May 2004)

***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** Just got out of seeing Troy in the theatre, and it was just amazingly bad. I mean awful. I mean terrible, from both a movie and sticking true to the material standpoint. Movie wise, this had to be one of the dullest and most uninspiring 'epics' of recent memory. The score sucked, the acting (with the exception of Brian Cox Peter O'Toole and Sean Bean) was pretty lame, the dialogue was all hamfisted and forced (do they need to say "this story will be retold for 1000 yrs" every 5 minutes?) and the fight scenes (with the exception of Hector/Achilles) were pretty stale. Now, for Mr. Peterson's "adaptation", and i use that term loosely, of the Iliad/Odyssey/Aeneid...he took Homer and just s**t all over it. Plain and simple. Here are some spoilers...I didnt realize the Trojan War took 2 weeks. How silly of me. I thought it took a decade. Menelaus dies the 2nd day of the battle? News to me...Helen and Hector's wife and daughter and Paris escape? Wow, I thought I read different...the introduction of Aeneas is an absolute joke...Paris fights at the end and kills Achilles, who just saw his slave woman kill Agammemnon? Interesting...THIS IS AWFUL!!! Apparently Homer wasnt good enough, Hollywood needs to change it. What a tragedy.