Well it was better than Tron!

Rating: 8/10 (15 May 2004)

There's lots of well choreographed action balanced with just the right amount of talk between grizzled old schemers and the acting is just about passable.
By all accounts it's relatively close to the classic Homer tale, but there's none of the Gods present (which ups the realism, at least). They don't show the homosexual incest that was known between Achillies and his cousin, but how many female fans could stand to see Brad Pitt in a gay scene?
It's hard to take the old Trojan horse story seriously (particularly after having seen the Trojan rabbit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail).
All in all, quite good fun and pretty to look at. Photoshop user criticism: those wide shots of a thousand ships sailing are too evenly spaced so as to appear clone-tooled into place.