Could of been so much better...

Rating: Null/10 (11 July 2011)

So much potential with this movie... To start with, the source material is from the greatest piece of military fiction/nonfiction ever written. Then you throw in some brilliant actors: Brian Cox (who better to play a villain?!?), Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Sean Bean...the casting is just perfect! Then throw in some new technological whiz-bang and a multi-million dollar budget, and you SHOULD get the greatest war movie ever made.......right? But then you watch it, and it doesn't feel right. The first 15 minutes is just spot-on. Achilles's show-off kill is just bad-ass. Everyone's just as you think of them....and then you get to the Trojans. They just don't seem formidable. They're supposed to be the strongest defense army in the world. Hell, all of Greece can't beat them! Its just not convincing.
And that's the Achilles's Heel of this entire production.(I really hate puns. I really do...but its seriously hard when you have such an overused phrase and it fits so well in this context) When I watch this film, I think of a re-enactment. The acting seems stiff and forced, while the sets seem cheap. It doesn't seem like a big and vast battle. Except for the 1st battle (which felt like a copy of the Normandy Invasion) all the battles had about 20 people fight it out. Nothing felt truly authentic.