Writers: Homer, David Benioff
Composer: James Horner
Starring: Julian Glover, Brian Cox, Brad Pitt, Brendan Gleeson, Diane Kruger, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Sean Bean, Julie Christie, Peter O'Toole
More info: IMDb
Tagline: For Honor. For Victory. For Love. For Destiny. For Passion. For Troy.
Plot: An adaptation of Homer's great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved.
My rating: 7/10
Will I watch it again? Probably not.
When I caught this in the theater in 2004 I wasn't impressed. I found Bloom to be an annoying prick, Pitt to be dolled up too much like a pretty boy and the female leads were underwritten and performed rather poorly. Outside of that I liked it OK. Cut to ten years later and I watched it again only this time it was the director's cut. Now either for reasons of seeing it again or seeing this different cut, I liked it. It was more violent than I remember and the major problems I perceived the first time around weren't as bad the second time. I'm probably not going to watch it again to figure out exactly what it was. It's a good film with some good action and performances but I think twice is my limit. There are far too many movies I haven't seen to let this one slip in once more.
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I have two main problems with the film. First, Brad Pitt was miscast. He's nowhere near tough enough to play Achilles, and his battles are filmed strangely to distract from this. Second, the film's timing is off. The Trojan War lasted ten years, but if you watch the film you get the impression that it was only three days.
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