The acting is very good, especially that of Eric Bana, who plays Hector. The scriptwriters deserve praise for not succumbing to the sin of inserting a line just so people would quote it. Even LOTR is guilty of that. "Let's hunt some orc."?! Come on.) The dialogue in Troy flows naturally.
The costumes and effects are excellent, but these days that is the rule and not the exception. The choreography of battles is good, and the movie isn't shy of showing blood and gore.
People who think the movie was designed to be an allegory on the Iraq war are idiots.
If you're looking for faithfulness to the Iliad, forget it. Menalaius is killed by Hector when paris loses a duel over Helen to him, Agamemnon is killed by Briseis when he tries to rape her (If you know the mythology, you should know that Agamemnon was killed by his wife Clytemnestra when he returned home). The war takes two or three weeks, not 10 years. I like the movie, but if it is even considered for best adapted screenplay, I'll get really angry. At least there isn't much chance of it winning that Oscar, since it will compete with Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban.
Since Troy is doing well at the box office, and since, by consensus, the best actor after Eric Bana was Sean Bean, who played Odysseus, we'll probably see a movie based on the Oddysey next year. I can't wait.
People who think the movie was designed to be an allegory on the Iraq war are idiots.
If you're looking for faithfulness to the Iliad, forget it. Menalaius is killed by Hector when paris loses a duel over Helen to him, Agamemnon is killed by Briseis when he tries to rape her (If you know the mythology, you should know that Agamemnon was killed by his wife Clytemnestra when he returned home). The war takes two or three weeks, not 10 years. I like the movie, but if it is even considered for best adapted screenplay, I'll get really angry. At least there isn't much chance of it winning that Oscar, since it will compete with Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban.
Since Troy is doing well at the box office, and since, by consensus, the best actor after Eric Bana was Sean Bean, who played Odysseus, we'll probably see a movie based on the Oddysey next year. I can't wait.