A superficial wannabe epic

Rating: Null/10 (11 June 2004)

Troy is just a superficial attempt at making a historical epic. Its visually impressive computer generated armies, battalions of ships and cities make it nice to look at , but thats as far as your enjoyment will go with this film (unless your an undemanding female in which case you have the chiseled bodies of brad pitt to look at....).
This is a story where characters die , wage war on each other , betray each other and go through all other sorts of drama , but the characters are so unlikeable that all of the potentially powerful plot developments involving them just loose their impact when they occur.You really wont feel that bothered about moments that are supposed to be really tragic or intense.
Its not all bad , but its uninvolving story and one dimensional characters ensure that it ain't exactly all good either. And the less said about achillies blonde hair and blue eyes in a racially homogenous ancient Greece , the better....