Troy [2004 film]

Would have been a decent movie but turns out to be just another example of the fact that Brad Pitt can't act. Screenplay, cinematography, costumes, set design,and other actors all good, so worth watching once.

It wasn't a bad movie, but there were certainly some quite inaccurate parts to this which will bother history buffs.

Brad Pitt (Actor), Eric Bana (Actor), Wolfgang Petersen (Director)
Brad Pitt picks up a sword and brings a muscular, brooding presence to the role of Greek warrior Achilles in this spectacular retelling of The Iliad. Orlando Bloom and Diane Kruger play the legendary lovers who plunge the world into war, Eric Bana portrays the prince who dares to confront Achilles, and Peter O'Toole rules Troy as King Priam. Director Wolfgang Petersen recreates a long-ago world of bireme warships, clashing armies, the massive fortress city and the towering Trojan Horse.

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A protracted and uninvolving affair in which men battle over issues that audiences may struggle to find compelling, and no central figure emerges to take command of the film. Sword-and-sandal epics cannot help but teeter on the brink of self-mockery, and Troy, for all its grim seriousness, embraces both the cliches and the beefcake. Troy does look good -- so good, in fact, that it takes a while to reveal itself as a thundering dud with much action but little personality, human drama, or brains.

En el año 1193 a. C., Paris, hijo de Príamo y príncipe de Troya, rapta a Helena, esposa de Menelao, el rey de Esparta, lo que desencadena la Guerra De Troya, en la que se enfrentan griegos y troyanos. El ejército griego asedió la ciudad de Troya durante más de diez años. Aquiles era el gran héroe de los griegos, mientras Héctor, el hijo mayor de Príamo, el rey de Troya, representaba la única esperanza de salvación para la ciudad.