Battles keep the movie afloat

Rating: 6/10 (28 February 2007)

So I like old style battle movies with spears, arrows, and swords for a closer fight. That is unmistakeably one reason I like "Troy". I don't like Orlando Bloom in anything (except "Lord of the Rings"), that is one reason I don't like "Troy". Orlando Bloom always plays the love interest/lover-boy role, and being that I'm not a woman, that stuff doesn't interest me. The story was decent, it was based upon actual history after all. The story focused more on Achilles (Brad Pitt) and Hector (Eric Bana) more than anything, but it was all leading up to an eventual climatic battle. The battle scenes were the only scenes that interested me, and I think they strategically placed the battle scenes in the movie at points where I was just about to lose interest.