Who cut this cheese?

Rating: 9/10 (15 May 2004)

You spent how much money on this? Some of these sets look like cheesy Italian gladiator movie sets. The actors (except for the women) fare OK especially Eric Bana as Hector who finally comes into his own as a leading man. But the battle scenes become repetitive and the love story is boring and speaking of love story when did Achilles' lover (his male lover that is) become his "cousin"? I wanted to like this movie and I was entertained by it - but in the end I was disappointed. The audience I saw it with laughed at some of the cheesy (that word again) dialogue but they also clapped at the end - so you can say the movie is an audience pleaser. But the director is NO Ridley Scott.