Troy and the Iliad come to a halt here. Should we be surprised?

Rating: 3/10 (5 April 2019)

As unbiased I want to be here. It is almost impossible. So I will start with the 3 positives that I got out of this movie and they are:

Brad Pitt is an amazing Achilles.
Eric Bana is an amazing Hector.
The Death of Achilles was an amazing way to show how a legend is born (the way he pulled out the arrows and the soldiers found just the one in his heel).

And this is it. All the rest is insulting to the Iliad (and not only).One will say that directors are not obliged to stick to the Iliad in order to do a Trojan war movie and they will be right. However, this does not give them right to make out absurd facts and disregard entire trilogy of Greek tragedies. I am sorry but:

Hector does not kill them all.
Menelaus does not die during the Trojan War
Agamemnon is not killed by Briseis (This was a total disgrace to Oresteia. Unacceptable!)
Agamemnon is NOT a villain (Please do not try to judge him using the current modern value system. Agamemnon is the king of kings. He is the mighty king who is proud , selfish and unwilling to compromise and this makes him a bearer of the traits of the mighty kings at THAT time. It doesn't mean that he is a villain. Seriously if you think that - try to judge Achilles through current moral value system. He cries to his mother over a slave, gets unfair armor crafted by a God and then kills a mortal man in an unfair fight being helped by a God only to gloat over it and drag his body in front of his wife and family? How come he can ever be a positive character? Ridiculous, right?)
Aeneas was simply LOL. What did they want to show? He was the second strongest Trojan out there. He wasn't some unknown kid who just retreated from the burning city.

So this will be my review. Bottom line is that:
1/ If you haven't read the Iliad you might be satisfied but you are risking to be BADLY misinformed on what and how has happened. This aside, the movie will be entertaining. I give it that fully.
2/ In case you have read the Iliad and you actually like it - PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM THIS FILM.