All in all, not enough for 3 hours

Rating: 4/10 (15 September 2015)

"Troy" is a historical adventure movie written by David Benioff based on the famous tale by Homer. The director is Wolfgang Petersen ("Das Boot"). It seems Petersen has a preference for overlong films as this one here (director's cut) also makes it past the 180-minute mark. I don't mind Brad Pitt and I quite like Eric Bana (mostly because of "Munich"), but still the genre is not really among my favorites. Apart from that, the film has Orlando Bloom in a crucial role (this was made shortly after the LotR trilogy when he was a huge star) and I cannot see any acting talent in him. This is also why I was cheering for Brendan Gleeson in their fight and all my love for Bana and his character left with that absolutely ridiculous ending. It's a 1 vs 1 and he simply gets in and kills the "bad guy". What a joke. And don't even get me started on Bloom's character killing Pitt's at the end. Complete nonsense. Achilles was shown to us as basically invincible and then this weakling comes and simply kills him.
Apart from this, the females in here were pretty insignificant as well. Kruger is entirely forgettable. Byrne does an okay job with what she is given and she looks amazing too. The best thing were maybe the 1 vs 1 fights here, the one I mentioned earlier (despite the stupid outcome) and also the one between Pitt's and Bana's character. However, I must say that this was quite a drag at times and should have been kept much more essential, perhaps around the 100-minute mark. There was a lot in this film that could have been left out. The way it turned out I cannot recommend it and it is also among the worst Brad Pitt performances and movies. Thumbs down.