Good fight scenes but sappy lines

Rating: 5/10 (31 May 2004)

This movie had some great fight scenes, thankfully, it's not over-the-top violence that can distract the audience and dull the story. The battles were entertaining. The rest of the story was dull and forgettable. The characterization was pathetic and I didn't really feel anything for either the good guys of troy or the bad guys of greece and sparta. There were some really bad lines too as when Paris is complementing his father the night before he is to battle Agamemnon and says something along the lines of "Father, you are a good leader because you love your city and everyone in it", come on, in an "epic", a "classic hero's tale"? It's more like a Sunday night NBC movie. But with better costumes. The sets were so obviously fake that you'd think it was taken straight from the ten commandments set.
Bottom line: does not do the illiad justice. Any classics professor would probably shrug this off as a teeny bopper movie for people who'd only study history if Brad Pitt and some sexy European women took lead roles in it.
Hopefully Wolfgang won't do a Gilgamesh movie.