Troy

"Troy" is based on the amazing poem The Iliad by Homer, according to the credits and the end of the movie. Homer's estate should sue. The movie tells the legend of the Trojan War, as the old city is being attacked by a Greek army who was being led by Menelaus of Sparta and Agamemnon of Mycenae. The most thing i didn't like is why in the movie they didn't explain why Helen would leave with Paris after an acquaintanceship of a very few nights. Was it because her loins throb with a passion for some kind of  hero? No, because in the movie she tells him: "I don't want a hero. I want a man I can grow old with till the day i die."

Pitt is an excellent actor and a very good looking man, and he worked out for six months to get hunk for the role, but Achilles is not a character that fits him easily. You can say what you like about Charlton Heston and Victor Mature, but one good way to handle a sword-and-sandal epic is to be filmed by a camera down around your knees. Pitt is really modern so he brings complexity to a role where usually is not required.

The best part in the movie has been Peter O'Toole creating an island of drama and emotion in the middle of the plodding dialogue. In this movie he plays old King Priam of Troy, who at night go around outside his walls and into the rivals camp, surprising Achilles in his tent.

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