Desperately disappointing

Rating: 2/10 (24 May 2004)

Could have been so much better. Badly cast, badly scored, desperately flawed script, in places badly acted by bad actors and over-acted by good ones. Accents ridiculously inconsistent - why was Mennelaus Irish, Agamemnon Scots and Helen German? The worst part? By the third act I could've cared less about any of the characters (except for Paris, and only then because I wanted him dead). Not a patch on Gladiator. See something else instead.
ANYTHING else, really. Very disappointed in the director, who has done some good work in the past, particularly Das Boot, which is an absolute classic.