Some swords-and-sandals entertainment.

Rating: 7/10 (9 January 2008)

Loads of high-adrenaline entertainment that was put together brilliantly on screen in some of the best choreographed battles in cinematic history. Was it just me, or did Kruger have a different accent in every scene? Plus...just a really awful performance on every level, though I think the same applies to Bloom. Other than that I thought acting-wise it was pretty well done, particularly from the beautiful Rose Byrne. Eric Bana and Brad Pitt were very intense and perfectly embodied the legendary soldiers that were superior to entire armies. The film was a little...overexaggerated (which was a good and bad quality, depending on the situation) even when it comes to the grand war that it was and some of the dialogue is too cheesy to stand for the most part. The choreography was beautiful, and I found a morbidly poetic sensation during the invasion of Troy. Perhaps the thousands of soldiers silently charging across the sand gave me this feeling. The ideas of getting rid of the Gods direct involvement and making Achilles an unstoppable badass added a lot to the film, especially in terms of entertainment which seemed to be Petersen's main priority (if it wasn't, then uh oh).