Troy Reviews

S*%t and Sandal.....

This film was pathetic!! I was so disapointed in this because The Trojan war is one of the best stories ever told, yet this bored me to death with its lack of quality.

For starters, Brad Pitt's performance WAS the Pits!!! He looked like he'd been taking acting lessons from Joey in Friends. The script was diabolical, so dramatic and heavy in a cheesy Hollywood way that it sounded like it was etched on stone. The battle scenes were poorly shot and you couldnt see who was fighting who and it was very confusing. The scenes with the 1000 ships looked rushed and stank of CGI. I really could just go on & on about this film.

But what disapointed me most was the Petersen thought he could tell the story better than Homer. He shifted the emphasis from Odydesus to Achilles which made it more like a western. He left out the gods, so it became like a history and he left out key dramatic elements like the fact the war lasted for ten years. The war in this film felt like it lasted about 3 weeks!!! and this film felt like it went on for an eternity!!! Terrible!

The horse wasn't the only thing wooden....

Saw this in the cinema last night and really wish I hadn't. The story is poor, the dialogue is dire, the acting wooden and the effects have been done before and better in Lord of the Rings, not only that but at 2hrs and 45mins long you have plenty of time to appreciate how bad it is. Brad Pitt's lack of charisma is shown up as well as his wooden acting, Orlando Bloom is woefully miscast and still playing an elf, Peter O'Toole and Brian Cox both really ham it up in the best pantomine tradition. The only credit is in Eric Bana's performance which is head and shoulders above anyone else. I shudder to think how bad this will be on DVD if it was so dire in the cinema - avoid at all costs.

Boring!!!

I'm not one for complicated films. I hate gritty British cinema and Tarrantino is truely a crap director, so I was looking forward to seeing this popcorn popping Hollywood Block Buster with the gorgeous Brad Pitt. But this was boring, confusing and I left the cinema very disapointed. There was nothing memorable about this so called epic. This is not even escapism.

[Highly rated reviewer]

sarongs ahoy!

Goodness, I had NO IDEA that the pre-Classical Greeks and Trojans invented the beach sarong, the crop-top for men and tie-dyeing. Who'd have thought it?

Indeed. This film is, surprisingly, evidence that the cinematic world hasn't really moved on from Cinecitt? epics from the early 1960s. It seems that the scriptwriters, when faced by Homer's narrative, took some perverse delight in screwing it up to utterly confuse audiences both informed and otherwise. But why?

Still, it doesn't really matter: the Iliad has lasted for 3000 years or so and isn't seriously going to be affected by this mildly entertaining nonsense.

And if no-one thought there were similarities between Homer and The Lord of the Rings, well here's your evidence...

You Rotters!!!

Its bad that most of you dont like this film because apart from the painful miscasting, awful acting, terrible scripts, ugly CGI, muddled fight scenes and confusing story, I thought this was a good film. I'm quite happy for Hollywood to spoon feed me this slops because I'm not after a film that tells me something new about the world. This is a classic epic film in the mould of The Patriot, Independence day and Pearl Harbour. If you enjoyed those films this one is for you!

The added bonus was seeing lots of Brad Pitt! Yum Yum!!

Favourite characters murdered!

The Iliad was a classic book (suposedly written over 3000 years ago). So dont go and kill loads of the great characters that didn't get killed in the book (Menalaus, Ajax ect...)!

Makes me sick

Plenty of Ham but no Taste

I suppose when you have a lifestyle that demands you will take anything to keep the cash rolling in then you will do stuff like Troy.

The acting from B.P. was more wooden than the horse and the portions of 'ham' from O'Toole and Cox were bigger than 'Supersize Me'

What was it all about about?

Take one immense classical legend and add a male model or two and bingo...boring nonesence.

I want my hard-earned money back for paying to sleep through this s*ite!!

Trul awful

Thats two hour of my life I'm never getting back.

Acting more wooden than the horse...

If you've never heard the story of the battle of Troy, if you know nothing of Achilles and the only Homer you know is in the Simpsons - then this is the film for you.

Allegedly, an updated retelling of the Iliad, it fails in every respect. Each character bearing little resemblance to the original and the story being so bastardized that it is virtually unrecognisable. Orlando Bloom is utterly unconvincing in his supposed world changing love affair, but at least succeeds in making Paris utterly unsympathetic and Achilles is reduced to a petulant child and Helen, whilst very pretty, lacks the X-factor needed to carry off the belief that, on her behalf thousands of men died during a ten year war [which is reduced to a couple of battles and appears to be over in under a month].

As a battle epic it succeeds in delivering blood and guts in a beautifully shot package, with wonderful cinematography and fantastic editing, it is let down by a terrible script, dire plot and the casting [exceptions such as Peter O’Toole and Eric Bana who struggled manfully against the appalling script.] At the end of the day this is not Troy and fails on every level to convey any of Homer's original and true Epic – Perhaps it's just an unfilmable story or maybe they should have waited another 3,000 years to attempt to do it cinematic justice!

100% Truly Awful

I read the reviews on this film and I thought it can't be that bad but believe me the reviews are 100% correct. This film is 100% truly awful.