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Rating: 7/10 (13 April 2005)

The Illiad is a long intricate story to say the least, so filming any epic is extremely difficult. So in the end we were pleasantly surprised by Troy. Some good battle scenes. Brad Pitt is perfect as the anti-hero superman, you really believe he is invulnerable. Some of the other casting leaves doubts, Eric Bana although acting well seems to slight to be Hector. Helen fails to convince that men would go mad for her beauty. The 10 year war is condensed into a few weeks, and towards the end of the film increasing liberties are taken with Homer's history. It would nice to have mentioned that the few escapees from Troy go on to found Rome which will one day conquer Greece.