Good to great... depending on why you see it

Rating: 8/10 (24 May 2004)

Good movie. I went to see an entertaining dramatization of a famous war, re-told in a modern fashion, from one director's point of view. Sure it may not follow the "dogma" of the the "Book" ... but so what? It still got me to think about mortality, belief systems, human folly, and a host of other topics.
With the exception of academics, and hard core fans, does it really matter who climbed out of the Trojan horse? Or how many arrows it took before the world got the saying "Achilles' heel"? In my case no. (BTW: It was a Dutch anatomist, Verheyden, in 1693 who coined the term. Homer said Achilles' weakness was his PRIDE and it was a Roman poet, Statius, who later implied Achilles' weak-spot was his heel.)
Now that I have some context for how things "could have" looked back then, I am curious enough to dig up my copy of the Iliad and perhaps re-read it.... which is far more than I was willing to do in the last 15 years!
I give it 8/10.