An empty product, with a beautiful cover.

Rating: 4/10 (27 August 2005)

This movie embodies an total desecration of classical literature by commerce. Quasi philosophical talk, bad romance, caricatural characters, and much too beautiful shots of ancient Greece in a flirt with homer. Off course, films do not have to be 'historically correct', or 'treu to the book on which it is based'; but a film has to be 'good' - whatever exactly that may be.
To make some resemblances. Gadiator had impressive fights, and a story no too bad. Star Wars 3 was good because of the dark atmosphere and quickly unfolding story. Troy has nothing of this. It is only worth seeing for those interested in a half naked Brad Pitt.
In the whole presentation the movie pretends to have something to do with classical mythology. This is not made true. When it was a good movie, this would be no problem. Now it is parasitic upon the Trojan myth. An empty product, with a beautiful cover.