Good, not Great (spoilers)

Rating: 10/10 (16 May 2004)

Most people would think this is a good movie because of hot guys like Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom and Eric Bana. Overall the movie was good, it did not really inspire me like the actual book did, but most people always say that the books are better than the movie. The fighting scenes were pretty good, but it wasn't anything new like lord of the rings, so the computerized men, sort of got old.
The best actors in that movie had to go to Eric Bana who plays Hector and Peter O Toole who plays Priam. They did awesome portraying those roles and should be honored somehow. Eric Bana was so perfect playing the honorable Hector. And so was Priam, especially when he talks to Achilles, about his dead son.
Brad Pitt, I was a little disappointed, though he had the handsome looks and great acting in other movies such as Snatch, Twelve Monkeys and Fight Club, he disappointed me with playing such a serious role of Achilles. Though, he did have to have arrogance and indifference throughout the movie, when he went to beat the big guy in the beginning, it seemed so simple for him, and i thought there should have been a scene where it could awe the crowd. Orlando Bloom played the weak and passive Paris, and it just seemed old him playing a role with a bow and arrow (not that girls will ever get tired of it).