Dire except for Peter O'Toole and a very comic turn (?) from Brad Pitt

Rating: 3/10 (1 August 2007)

The three stars all go to Peter O'Toole who was completely wonderful. I decided not to give Brad Pitt a star for his comic turn as I'm not sure whether he intended it to be a comic turn or he really though Achilles was like this and it really didn't help an already bad movie to have this skit of Achilles in it. But I had hysterics (laughter I mean) whenever he appeared. Orlando Bloom - well, I like him a lot as a personality but the poor man had to act a complete wally and I can't tell whether he could have done better with the part or the script was so bad he hadn't a chance. Really, other than Peter O'Toole giving us some real class, what a thrilling actor he always is, it's a shame that this great Greek myth has been turned into such a dire movie. The other vrsion I've seen, called Helen of Troy, was very much better.