Liked it.

Rating: 8/10 (10 December 2005)

One of those that I missed at the cinema, but caught at home. The big screen probably would have helped, but in all honesty I struggled to really fault it. I'm sure that students of Greek mythology would have had a field day picking holes in it, but it held my interest all the way through. Thought that the acting was OK but as I never really knew all aspects of the story then I was more into picking up the plot than being over focused on individual performances. Thinking back now, Paris was certainly "pretty" enough & Hector was certainly heroic...maybe Brad Pitt as Achilles was a bit of opportunistic casting, but I thought he was believable enough. The action scenes were good, and the violence was just about right without being gratuitous. I grew up loving big "sword & sandals" films, and now technology has jumped ahead in many aspects I'll look forward to introducing my boys to it when they're a little older.
Haven't seen Alexander yet - how do they compare?