Such a nonsense!!

Rating: Null/10 (24 November 2005)

A poor commercial Hollywood production, no matter how big the budget was. I wonder whether any of the people involved therein has the slightest idea about Homer, whose great epic poem (Iliad) they have so shamefully spoiled. Have they any idea about the Ancient Greek World? Awful dressing, having nothing to do with Ancient Greece, showing rather something between Ancient Persia and Turkey. My God, these turbans on the supposed Greek heads!! Absolutely ridiculous! I did not know whether to laugh or to scream out from anger. The awful music and dancing (was it not like belly dance?) recall rather eastern cabarets of Istanbul. The bully Achilles, rather a cow-boy film hero who kills everybody, so far from to be the famous Homer hero. A film that disappoints and get in the nerves of the people understanding something about the issue and especially when they are Greeks. It goes without saying that only the general idea was taken by Iliad. The rest was a shame!! I have been unable to see it to the end. Recommended for people who want to waste their time and money, or like such sort of productions worse than the ones of the 50's!!