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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Watch for Eric Bana, 20 Jun 2007
I will agree that this film is filled with inaccuracies. The fact that the Trojan war lasted 10 years and was mostly a siege seemed to have been skipped, as well as the Paris and Helen relationship created by Aphrodite, including Achilles' son was in the war also. But, you can't fit all of this into a 2 hour slot, in which I feel, you can't recreate Homer's story, introducing all characters and give it a poetic flamboyance. What it does give you is a sweeping spectacle of the invasion, just speeded up somewhat. Brad Pitt brings anger and mood to the character Achilles, performing well, but my hat was off to Eric Bana, for his rather correct portrayal of Hector of Troy, commander of the armies, loving family man and a fierce warrior, eldest son of King Priam, who it was said to have 50 sons and 50 daughters. Busy Man!!!
All the characteristics were integrated in Eric Bana's portrayal of Hector, which sounds rather a cold description for a fine act. Just watch how the emotions can be read in Bana's face as Hector, excellent.
Yes its lavish, Yes it alittle rushed and alittle clean, but in the same hand, its thoroughly enjoyable, which, when the titles appear, listen out for the haunting song called 'Remember'.
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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Achilles Heel, 3 Dec 2005
From the Summer of Blockbusters that promised so much and delivered so little comes Troy. Following the events leading upto and including the fall of Troy comes this massive production. It could have been the epic to end all epics, but it falls short of the mark.Dont let that put you off though, this isnt a bad movie, it has a fantastic cast Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom, Eric Bana, Sean Bean, Peter O'Toole the list goes on. The special effects are outstanding, two massive armies are created and an entire city is recreated with amazing detail. The problem is that with all these ingredients this should have been fantastic, but instead this is no more than an average sword and sandals romp. The battle scenes are huge and well staged, if a little short lived, and the fight between Achilles and Hector is breath taking. The film starts well and will keep you entertained throughout, but the end does feel a little rushed. Not a classic but entertaining if forgetable stuff.
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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Orlando Bloom is in this ... enough said., 16 Nov 2007
Words cannot describe just how shockingly bad this movie is. Miss-cast, disgraceful sets and costumes, and a twelve year old's comprehension are just some of the contributing factors to this benchmark of cinematic awfulness. Helen was a face that was supposed to have launched a thousand ships, so why, oh why did they cast the wooden Diane Kruger? Couldn't they have got an Angelina and at least have this part of the film convincing? Even more jaw dropping is Orlando Bloom - the world's worst actor - attempting to take on the role of Paris, with a little boy lost expression, that suggests `I am barely out of puberty never mind capable of pinching another guy's bird'. But hands down the most laughable performance has to be Brad Pitt's so-called swift footed Achilles. I don't think Pitt understood half the things he said, why he said them, or in fact how he found himself on the film set at all. A mystic perma tan, baby oiled limbs, peroxide locks and a mini skirt, reduce the legendary Achilles to a second rate WWF wrestler or a tacky Chippendale stripper. One gets the impression Pitt studied his character by holding his copy of Homer in one hand, and pumping iron with the other. I wish Hollywood would leave the ancient world alone if it insists on portraying it in such a mindless and unsympathetic manner. Note to Wolfgang Peterson - read Homer's `Illiad' and perhaps Euripides' `Helen', maybe even seek out Margaret Atwood's `Penelopiad' with its ironic take on Helen as a harlot queen who didn't innocently flutter her eyelids at Paris and end up snatched from her husband and homeland, but went quite willingly. As Atwood's re-visioning of an ancient story suggests you can look retrospectively with irony and cynicism and a movie version could have taken this into consideration by understanding that ancient Greece produced many and varied interpretations of the Helen story, not merely the formulaic, face-value concept demonstrated in `Troy'. That being said if Homer's `Illiad' was the inspiration behind Peterson's film, then I think he would be turning in his grave ...
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