The only guarantee you have when you spend $200 mil, is that you spent $200 mil.

Rating: 6/10 (15 May 2004)

All in all, this movie was just barely average and here's why. My first complaint is the color tones it was filmed in, this bugged me from the first few seconds of the film, it made it look old, like an old bible movie. If they gave it more of a gold tint or a sharp clear image then the battle sequences would have been much more enjoyable to watch. The next and biggest problem for me was the character development, and it's problem was, there wasn't any. Things we just very rushed and weren't given the time to let you care for the characters. They took a ten year epic and crunched it down into a three week dissapointment. For example we have Helen and Paris, after three days or so of sleeping together they decide they are in love and decide to risk not only their lives, but the lives of everyone in Troy for it. Then we have this huge army sailing over after them only a few days later, we are talking one thousand ships, suddenly packed up, including soldiers, set sailing for Troy. And that scene wasn't near as grand as they made it look in trailors, it didn't have me excited at all. And that was what really killed this movie, no excitement, you never got that, "feeling". And the fault in that lies in the hands of our director. What I dont understand is why they give these huge budgets and trust these movies with people like Peterson and Zwick (last samurai), both of these films, with all the money they had and such great actors could have done so much better. When making these movies you need the likes of Speiberg and Zemeckis involved. Actually, for handling this movie, I think Peter Jackson would have been perfect. In the end I think the movie came out too soon and I give it 2/5 stars.