I would have liked to see...

Rating: Null/10 (24 May 2004)

Although I wasn't crazy about this movie on the whole anyway, one of my major gripes about it was that all the female characters were portrayed as sniveling pathetic little wusses. In the myth, the story has plenty of interesting female characters, such as Clytemnestra (Agamemnon's wife, who kills him when he returns to Mycenae), Iphigenia (Agamemnon's daughter, whom he sacrifices before he sails to Troy), Cassandra (princess of Troy, who predicts Troy's downfall but is never believed) and Electra (Agamemnon's daughter, who aids in killing Clytemnestra). Instead, all the female characters were whiny and not very bright. I would have liked to see some powerful women to complement the powerful men, instead of the typical damsel-in-distress nonsense.