Troy Movie
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For Honor
For Victory
For Love
For Destiny
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For Troy
It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnom to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles, and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen of Homer's "The Iliad."
| Julian Glover | Triopas |
| Brad Pitt | Achilles |
| Brian Cox | Agamemnon |
| Orlando Bloom | Paris |
| Eric Bana | Hector |
| Diane Kruger | Helen |
| Nathan Jones | Boagrius |
| Adoni Maropis | Agamemnon's Officer |
| Jacob Smith | Messenger Boy |
| John Shrapnel | Nestor |
| Brendan Gleeson | Menelaus |
| Siri Svegler | Polydora |
| Lucie Barat | Helen's Handmaiden |
| Ken Bones | Hippasus |
| Manuel Cauchi | Old Spartan Fisherman |
| Wolfgang Petersen |
6.90 out of 10 (63815 votes)
Visitor Reviews
There Love Sank A Civilization
posted on 31 Aug 2009The epic story of the siege of Troy, one of the oldest tales of the civilized world, was the basis for a return of the big budget sand and sandal epics of the Fifties and Sixties as the big studios were spending tons of money on films to make them bigger and better to compete with television. It's as spectacular as anything that Cecil B. DeMille did without the 19th century Victorian prose that his scripts were laced with. In fact it's better because DeMille did not have computer graphics available to him.One of the criticisms I hear about the film was that it was not comprehensive enough in terms of telling the whole story. To tell this whole story would require a lengthy mini-series and this was made for the big screen. If a two hour and 40 minute version of the story constitutes a Reader's Digest version of same, than so be it. The basic parts were covered and the errors are purely in the interest of editing.Brendon Gleeson is King Meneleus of Sparta and he has a lovely young trophy queen named Helen played by Diane Kruger. Paris the son of King Priam of Troy is on a diplomatic mission from his city state which is across the Aegean Sea and in what is now Turkey. Orlando Bloom as Paris who is a rather shallow and callow youth, takes one look at Helen and she him and the chemistry gets going. He sneaks her aboard the Trojan ship before word is out and she's in Troy before you can say cuckolded.Of course Meneleus ain't taking this lying down and he gets together with the rulers of the other Greek city states and they put together a D-Day like invasion and the siege begins. Although you wouldn't know it from the film, it lasts 10 years and that's really the only fault of the film. But again it's in the interest of editing.A lot of the success of the invasion depends on the legendary Greek warrior Achilles and his elite guard called the Myrmidons. Achilles is played by a bulked up Brad Pitt and it's one of his best performances. Although my favorite role of Pitt's is in Seven Years In Tibet, this one is cited by his many fans in saying that Brad's come of age as an actor and not just a pretty face.The climax is the famous fight between Orlando Bloom's brother, Prince Hector of Troy and Achilles. Hector slew young Patroclus played by Garrett Hedlund who was in Achilles armor and Achilles is out for blood. It's a no quarter match when Achilles slays Hector and with it a lot of the hopes and dreams of Troy. Hector is played well by Eric BanaMy favorite scene is when King Priam goes out on the field to claim Hector's body and meets Achilles. Priam is played by Peter O'Toole and I'm surprised O'Toole did not get yet another Oscar nomination for Priam in the Supporting Actor category. Achilles the disillusioned warrior because he sees the greed and rapaciousness of the Greek kings and Priam the heartbroken but still proud ruler of Troy who has to see his duty through meet and gain a mutual respect for the other. This scene between Pitt and O'Toole is the best in the film by far.Reading the ancient text by Homer, the Greek Gods play significant parts in the drama. Here they are acknowledged, but make no presence in the film. It's a most secular story indeed and is criticized by some for that reason, but I find no fault with it.The best reason to see Troy is to awaken an appreciation of the classics, especially among the young. If this Reader's Digest version of Homer's epic, inspires someone to do just that, it will be well worth the budget.
Good movie, big historical mistakes (hollywood movie)
posted on 29 Aug 2009This movie is obviously well done, some actors are great in it lets not mention Brad Pitt for a moment, Hector i mean Eric Bana is great in it he did a tremendous job. and where was Peter O'Tool all these years he is one of the greats. The scene's one word excellent. Only question mark is on the historical accuracy, Achille died before the Trojan horse entered troy; the girl was not Paris's cousin nor was Patroclus Achille's one And i always thought the true hero of the story was Odysseus not Achille who was in a sense an antihero.Hollywood movies tend to change history (many people believe Homer's mythology was true in a way), and many people take most of their knowledge and education from these kind of movies and i Think the movie makers should take that under consideration and take their responsibilities.
not good *spoiler*
posted on 29 Aug 2009I'm a huge fan of Brad Pitt, but I guess even the best slip every once in a while. Too bad for a movie that carried so much hype (great trailers). Yes, we all know how the story goes, but that doesn't mean we couldn't appreciate it. The storyline was accurate (true story?), but it simply lacked DEPTH. The cast was great, but the script didn't fit. The movie is still entertaining though, great fight scenes, pretty faces and even good acting (Eric Bana). Gladiator is 10 times better than this epic, hands down. I love Brad, but Achilles just wasn't the right role for him. I hope next time Wolfgang spends as much time on the writing as much as he did on the graphics. DISAPPOINTING!!!
Fantastic
posted on 27 Aug 2009This film was absolutely brilliant! It had everything for everyone: war and hate, romance, action, drama and adventure! This film had me sitting on the edge of my seat the whole time. Some long films tend to drag on, but not this one! The time flew by. I don't usually like Orlando Bloom's acting, I find that he is often overshadowed by the other actors, but I thought everyone came into their own and performed one hundred and ten per cent. Marvelous! I went to the cinema twice to see this film, which I have never done before. This surely proves how great I thought it was! I am definitely going to buy this film on video, and I can't wait to see it again! (Also, I thought Brad Pitt looked FINE in every shot!)
A great movie, and occasionally moving
posted on 27 Aug 2009I recently watched Troy, unfortunately not in theaters, and was pretty impressed. My favorite character is Achilles, and I think his scenes are among the best in the filmOne thing I thought fell flat was the Paris/Helen romance. The pair simply didn't have the same chemistry as Achilles and Briseis. Other than that I liked it a lot. The costumes were beautiful (I am absolutely dying to have Hector's wife's blue dress) and a lot of the acting was pretty good.My favorite parts were anything with either Hector or Achilles & Briseis in them. Eric Bana was excellent at playing the perfect man (he is the one every woman wants to marry) and Brad Pitt simply WAS Achilles. I especially loved seeing Achilles with Breseis, his one true love (aaaaw!), because it showed another side of him. I personally think his character was very well developed, and would have liked to see more romance w/ him. But, then again, I am a hopeless romantic and tend to fall for the vulnerable bad boy, so my opinion might not be totally reliable.My advice is to watch this movie as a story, not as a history book or the Iliad. It's not the Iliad, or totally accurate, but it's still a good, moving, believable story. Rent it, give it a fair chance, and don't cry too hard when Hector dies.
Troy is among the most underrated films of this century...
posted on 23 Aug 2009Now this movie is one of the most underrated films of this century, as most of the film ratings have hit the nail on the head. This movie is an epic and dramatic, well told story with plot twists that will get anyone surprised. A big turn off for people might have been the fact that the main characters, Archilles and Hector die. But I think it was a good choice. Not only is it th opposite of a happy ending, which got real old a while back, it gives more emotion, feel, and reality to the story itself. Some things in the movies make you scowl in disgust, and that is what they are suppose to do. When the "good guys" do something very evil, they want you to disgust it, now I am not saying that it was stupid, oh no, it was the opposite. This disgust gave the movie more reality and emotion, making it all the better.
So much potential
posted on 19 Aug 2009Such a great story.Such a shallow rendering.I don't understand why they needed to trivialize so many of the relationships and change so much of the plot. Agamemnon's vanity is too trite. Hector is not nearly represented as the great warrior he was. And Patroclos was no warrior at all.The best (and it was fabulous) was Sean Bean's rendering of Odysseus. Sly, confident, tricky, desirous to be home with his wife. He was a treat.Read the book. There's much more drama and action in it.
The best film I've seen
posted on 17 Aug 2009I'm fond of Greek Legend and to watch films based on it, it's great pleasure for me. Yes, I know that the film haven't showed all the details according to the legend, but anyway it's just fantastic.The city Troy itself, I imagine it just like this. I keep silence about actors because they are brilliant Jennifer Aniston you're lucky one.Everything is so simple and it's very easy for us to understand the life of Greek people, their traditions and customs. The creation and the returning to the ancient times, it's the best voyage for me. During today chaos, we should see that war destroy everything good in us: love, beauty, cities, friends.One the most important point is that this movie for all times and for all ages. I mean that everyone can watch it, children to find out something new in history and for the rest is to open something new in our inner world. I'm very glad that such film has taken place in my life and I do hope not only in my.P.S. Don't forget Oscar award for it.
Impressive in some aspects, but still not masterly composed.
posted on 15 Aug 2009Getting an eye on almost every historic-action movie, I didn't expect a surpassing movie delivered in an axiomatic way to the crowd. I was right, for this is yet another slow-moving movie mostly composed of beautiful environments, yet its plot seems ponderous and gives itself a very low chance of second viewing. Yet, this movie once more proves that influential actors and pulchritudinous environments are not the only attributes a motion picture has to possess in order to gain success in world-wide public ratings. Conclusion - Yet poorly delivered, recommended for history fans and people with time to spare. 7/10
Outstanding picture...Wolfgang's best since Das Boot
posted on 15 Aug 2009The photography in this movie is superb, with dozens of overhead, moving and long distance shots that truly paint a picture of Troy and Greece back in the glory days.Brad Pitt shows his talent by switching off between a love-starved young man and the war-hungry Achilles.The story is accurate yet involves a few extra twists. There is battles over love, rage, death, greed, power, and quest for fame. This movie is not for the squeamish. Many scenes encompass the real horror of ancient battle. However, unlike other "action" or "war" movies, this flick really provides a great plot with several underlying stories for different characters on both sides.
Movie a smear on Greek culture
posted on 13 Aug 2009This movie goes even further than Peter Jackson's vomitous regurgitation of Tolkien. It is not only a blight on the classic literature it attempts to "remake", it is a mockery of Ancient Greek civilization.When are Hollywood producers going to learn to stick with original screenplays or adaptations of current novels. At least the authors of these are available to have a say in the realization of their work in a different medium.READ THE BOOK!
Johnny Hobeika
posted on 13 Aug 2009When i went to the movies to watch TROY , i didn't know what the movie was about ..... i heard of the legendary "Trojan Horse" , but never before of the whole war ... in other words , i went just because i'm a Brad Pitt fan ... but after i watched the movie , i was simply overtaken by it ... its unbelievably nice !!!! Few Months later , i bought the DVD , and ever since , i've been watching it over & over again !!! It's simply OUTSTANDING !!! I was so overtaken with the whole epic legend that i wanted to know more about "Homer's" masterpiece , and whether or not it really existed .... I began by reading the Illiad , and yes as most of the previous writers i did find a huge gap between Wolfgang's version of the Illiad , and the original story ..... And yes , as previously stated , Greek gods actually play the major role in defining men's destiny .... but i preferred Wolfgang's version .... Look at it this way .... there's too much details about gods to be prevailed in the movie , and if the makers of the movie were to include all these details , than the movie would seem something like "The Matrix" ....in other words , Wolfgang's version of the story is based on reality .... take for instance the death of Achilles . It is originally written that the only way to end the hero's life was through his tendon ,knowing that the hero was dipped in the holy water of the river Styx .... However , Wolfgang previewed his death as the ordinary death of any man , only Achilles pulled out the arrows except that of his foot , which ultimately led people to believe that the only way to kill him was through his tendon .Eventually , for me , the whole movie is simply PERFECT !!!! If it weren't , i wouldn't have watched it everyday for the last 6 months , and told others to do so .... The whole tragedy made actually consider of leaving MY mark in the world ... i now aim at immortality just like Achilles . My goal is to actually achieve something in life so that i would live on peoples tongues ,books , and tales for generations and generations to come .....
Good as it is, don't rely on this to get you through your midterm in Classical Studies.
posted on 13 Aug 2009I was impressed with how a modern screen writer adapted this epic to film. The high school I went to required us to labor through Virgil's translation of Homer. We actually did the Odyssey, probably because the staff thought the story of this brutal genocide was too much for us 14 year olds. I find myself saying "but Homer was Greek so how come he didn't make them morally superior to the Trojans?" I have to admit, I'm no Classical scholar, but it has lead me to research the times further. Why did not the Greeks have a hero similar to Hektor, who fought for his country bravely yet, he knew, futilely. Okay, this is not really a spoiler right? I mean everybody knows who "won". What comes to mind as a modern parallel is Dee Brown's "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee". The compassionate telling of the vanquished's tale is a rare skill. Also, there's no money in it, and it gets you ostracized politically. Funny thing, you see, I'm in the NRA, and I once asked the people at the Civilian Marksmanship Program to create a "Crazy Horse Medal". Right now, one of their top medals is named after, you guessed it, Custer. They never responded, but a few weeks later I get a letter from Ollie North. Coincidence? Maybe. OK, enough rambling. I hope the Odyssey is as well done if they make it as a "sequel". Then they can do Virgil's Aeneid. Yes, they worked Aeneis in, go watch the movie!
bogged down in goofs!!!
posted on 13 Aug 2009"Menelaus was not slain by Hector; he outlived him and was one of the soldiers in the Trojan Horse. He was eventually reunited with Helen and they apparently lived a happy life until his death in Sparta many years later. - Agamemnon was not killed by Briseis at Troy; he survived and returned home only to be killed by his wife Clytaemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. - Patroclus was not Achilles cousin, he was probably his lover. - Achilles was killed by a single arrow shot by Paris, way before the Greeks built the horse. - Priam was killed by Neoptolemos, son of Achilles. - Patrokles was deadly wounded by Euphorbos and Hector then cut his throat. - Ajax was not killed by Hector, instead he committed suicide, after slaughtering a flock of sheep, which in a bout of madness he mistook for the Greeks that had refused him the armor of the dead Achilles. - Paris died of a poisoned arrow shot by Philoket. - Astyanax, son of Hector, was thrown to his death from the walls of Troy by the victorious Greeks. - Andromache, wife of Hector, was taken as a slave by Neoptolemos. - Aeneas was a son in law to King Priam and the second in command of the Trojan forces. So Paris asking him his name at the end of the movie is rather strange." It is a long list of goofs isn't it? Is a person who has a smattering knowledge of Ancient Greek culture be misled by the movie? Is it all about creating a movie for a world of affluenza? Do you have to create a metrosexual Achilles(like a metrosexual Alexander created by Oliver Stone)? Do you have have to shift from retrosexuality to metrosexuality always? You decide yourself. No matter how cinematic it is I can't believe people who voted ten for this movie!!!!!
Flawed At Best
posted on 13 Aug 2009Achilles: (to his men) Myrmidons! My brothers of the sword! I would rather fight beside you than any army of thousands! Let no man forget how menacing we are, we are lions! Do you know what's waiting beyond that beach? Immortality! Take it! It's yours!That speech, I find ironic as this was the movie that could have become infamous as a film, a proper classic, in the vein of "Spartacus", "Gladiator" or even "Jason And The Argonauts". This is the movie that could have made Wolfgang Petersen into a Steven Spielberg-esquire Director, a star of Eric Bana, a leading man of Orlando Bloom, brought Brad Pitt up to Tom Cruise's (figurative) height and left Diane Kruger as a potential superstar.Instead, this movie flopped. BADLY. Now the reasons can be either obvious or mystifying. I'm in the middle. As an action-adventure movie, I want big action type and kick-ass battle scenes. It has action and battle scenes, but they're disappointing. Really you would have expected so much more in the action scenes, it could have been so much better.It has good acting from Peter O'Toole, Brian Cox, Eric Bana and Sean Bean, Diane Kruger and Orlando Bloom do well, the most disappointing was Brad Pitt. In this movie he was supposed to be the hero and I thought he was a prat. Eric Bana, really, was supposed to be the villain and yet I preferred him to Brad "Arm"Pitt.It no longer had c Gods in it, which would have really tipped it over the edge. Instead Achilles was just a brilliant fighter. This movie was more steeped in realism, which gave it that extra edge.Watch it if you want, but prepared to be disappointed."In the year 1193 B.C., Paris, a prince of Troy woos Helen, Queen of Sparta, away from her husband, Menelaus, setting the kingdoms of Mycenae Greece at war with Troy. The Greeks sail to Troy and lay siege. Achilles was the greatest hero among the Greeks, while Hector, the eldest son of Priam, King of Troy, embodied the hopes of the people of his city."
Troy is Superb!
posted on 11 Aug 2009Director Wolfgang Peterson did a superb job with Troy, about as good as it gets for this type of film. There is absolutely no way a story of this magnitude can be made within the alloted time frame, but somehow it gets done. The entire cast does a fine job, I see no need to downgrade the performances. Brad Pitt does a great job as does Eric Bana who at some point begins to look Oscar worthy. The piece was so thoroughly entertaining I saw it 2 times. Many a spectacular job was done with the battle scenes. I consider this movie to be a Hollywood masterpiece.
Their bad.
posted on 11 Aug 2009(Never have so many missed so much. Fist, who is this Homer that wrote the poems, accompanied by lute, the two songs, The Ilyad and The Odyssey? A first year student knows that there is but one survivor, Odysseus, Song of Zeus "brackets not allowed" Son of Zeus, which is to say, Son of God. And these are his stories. Because only he survived, there can be no other Author than this king, of the Achayans and Ithaca (the rocky island), Odyesseus, whom many have tried to rename as Hercules, aka, Herakles, son of Hera, which Odysseus was not. That would be Ars, not Aries whom the Romans called Apollo (again, not Apollyon his antithesis of the Roman Herodians) who, when felled by Pallas Athena, goddess and sister of Odysseus, through their Father Zeus, created the Seven Hills of Rome, and where Romulus and Remus claimed their Spartan ancestry. ("wherefrom" was edited by the site speller, apparently, a non-English speaking native.) Second, what are both the Ilyad and the Odyssey about? The life of Odysseus. No more, no less. Ilyum, erroneously called "Troy" again by the Herodians, is the land of the Hitites and bears their symbol, the Swastika, which 3,000 years later was to be embraced by the Nazi's in a vain attempt to claim lineage from them. It is a hill about 12 miles south of Phildelphia in Turkey. The Turks, in their white slave trading habits (how Priam got so rich), have kidnapped Helen. The first epoch, The Ilyad, is the united Greek Empire punishing these Eastern civilizations for their slave trade of Greek women. The second epoch, The Odyssey, is about the sole survivor's return home to the treachery in the now capital of the empire. The politicians to be most bloodily slain for their own transgressions against the king, the recognized ("reconised" edited by bonehead speller) son of the Greek king of the gods, Zeus. If Odyesseus is not the focal point of the story, then the story is false. And in history when falsehoods replace truth via poetic license, it is called propaganda, or, a lie. A prettied pictured as given by the men who rewrite history past. You cannot take poetic license with a poem. Period. You can only tell a lie thereby. The poet does not grant to Hollywood any such license to alter his works. And there is the Amercian tragedy, they do it anyway because they "think" they are artists; worse, they "think" they are poets. A poet and an artist is the man who lives the story and writes about it, and never the ones who simply rewrite it for personal gain and fortune. Had the actual epoch been read, and the proper research done, it would have been quite clear to both recent filmmakers that their vision was blind. Not just in the account, but severely in the cast. The same university scholars that acclaim these films are from those institutions that also called Heinrich Schliemann a fool for thinking the Trojan War was anything more than a myth, and then reversed face when the first archaeologist ("archaeologist edited by bonehead speller). (The sound is Latin, bonehead, "ae" pronounced "a" not "e") taught the universities the first real archeology (bonedhead edit two on ("archaeology") while proving the fact of The Ilyad and The Odyssey. And throughout this they have all missed the basis of the Swastika, symbol of the Hitites and their rebirth as ash can ("ashkenazi" edited by bonehead who obviously does not know Hebrew), as opposed to edit far deem, ("sephardim" edited by bonehead, who needs to go to school to learn how to spell, and learn some poetry and art). In the end, the two films are the myths, and the epochs are the facts as misrepresented and entirely not entertaining versions of the not entertaining industry thereby. You cannot justify the "cutting" floor by revenues. How many times will the "dudes" in Hollywood make this mistake and blame others before admitting their own myopic not creative vision? A cell phone with Internet would be more entertaining than a cast of LA's who have no idea of what part they are playing in LaLaland. And one other fact they all missed. To feed 100,000 soldiers, you pit broil cows ("heffers" edit). Thus, the sacrifice to the gods is that of feeding your army. And what exactly happens when you fail to do this? Don't 100,000 men get a little riled about this and impose the will of the gods? What did you think? That Zeus cared all that much about a few cows and not about feeding his followers? Historians and Hollywood, two blind directors they have heard somewhere, but not being the "traveller," the Bard, have no idea of what the Warrior was talking about. (edit too long; again, bonehead site) Where was all this "vision" by these two directors and these two casts? With the Cyclops, obviously. Kirk Douglas still rules as the only one to get the part right, and his director to get the story right. And neither these two directors nor casts of this end of our millennium set of inept even comes close. These productions are so "mish-mosh" edit by bonehead and watered down for some PG rating attempt, that they hang like an albatross about Beverly Hills. A Know Nothing story by Know Nothing story repeaters. How then do they question the box office flops? Thank God Hollywood rejected "The Lord Of The Rings." Else Tolkien and the history of Midgarde as well would have been a LaLaland "candycane". Claim what you will, but do not claim the existence of "vision" in Hollywood. It is the vision of the idiot bonehead who did the spelling for a movie site. How stupid can you get?
A definite good time.
posted on 11 Aug 2009A well hyped film may sometimes find it hard to match up to the expectations set by the press. "Troy" does relatively well in this area, though the battle scenes are an excellent eyefull for the gore lovers, and quite watchable and interesting for those who aren't, they do come off, particularly the storming of the beach of Troy, as a little try hard, attempting, and failing, to be as glorious as the battles of The Lord of the Rings. Also, some of the dialogue and acting leaves something to be desired. Peter O'Toole brings quite a back ground character effect to King Priam, and fumbles several lines, whilst Rose Byrne fumbles even more and leads viewers to the belief that they could have done a better job, all they need is to turn on the water works at the appropriate time. Brad Pitt is an excellent Achilles, but if film makers wished us to like his character they did a sad job of it, and the Achilles we see does some unredeemable things. Eric Bana truly is something brilliant as the heroic prince Hector, and there isn't much to say in the way of fault to his performance, an incredible embodiment of both power and responsibility being held together. Orlando Bloom has been continuously attacked for his acting skills, but is every inch the young Paris, and any misgivings about him are lost as the end of the film arises. Meanwhile Brian Cox gives another interesting performance as a bad guy, and assures a few laughs as he goes, and imprints the line "I like your land!" in most viewers brains. Diane Kruger makes a favourable appearance as the beautiful Helen, once Queen of Sparta, now Princess of Troy. But there is only one truly flawless actor to show himself on the big screen through out nearly 3 hours of film, and that is the mighty Sean Bean, as Odyseuss. Nothing but praise can be given to his presence, and he holds the movie high. While battles are all well and good, special effects are fine, and storyline is quite simple, it really is a character film, and this leads to most of my comment being on the actors and actresses, good or bad. Altogether a definite good time, and a memorable watch. 7/10.
So it's not(!) the Iliad...
posted on 09 Aug 2009But it's an inspiring tale of men(!) at war in ancient times. The movie, albeit long, moves along a good pace, with mercifully brief romantic and philosophical breaks between the combat scenes. This movie is action, with more than a little thought put into accurately presenting the realities of the tactics used in Greek warfare. Troy is also to be congratulated for not over-armoring the cast like previous Hollywood productions and staying true to the lightness of armor prevalent during the historical period.Lovers of Homer and Greek mythology may be disappointed but keep in mind this film is about the Trojan War, not the Iliad. This war is epic in scale and isn't about poetry.Still, it would be great if Sean Bean were given the opportunity to play Odysseus again. Although not on screen much in Troy, his performance is edgy and true to the legends of the cunning king of Ithaca.
A Disaster
posted on 31 Aug 2009At one point I had very high expectations for this film but after seeing it I thought this was a train wreck. Basically everything is wrong such as *SPOLIER ALERT*-Achillies dies in the siege of Troy -Paris escapes -Helen escapes with Paris -The wooden horse burns -and Achillies gets killed in a volley of arrows rather than a single one to the heel. The only good part was when you see the Greek fleet.Basically to sum it up this film is a wasteful two hours. Move along to some other filmOverall this film doesn't even deserve a score. In other words 0/10. Now I will say this seriously I respect Brad Pitt, I know he is a good actor I just don't think this is the right role for him.