| Troy | | Cast : | Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom | | Director : | Wolfgang Petersen | | Studio : | Warner Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | May 14, 2004 | | DVD Released Date : | June 07, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 08, 2005 | | Summary | Excellent movie | Content
 | Yes, some creative liberties were taken to make this adaptation of The Illiad but that can't be avoided since the epic poem isn't really structured for today's movie format.
Apart from this, the movie was well acted, well thought out, well scripted, and truly gave a feel of what it might have been like during the times before Homer.
I've met people who said after seeing Troy that they wanted to be Greek. Hey, you can't praise this movie any more than that.
A fun movie that takes myth and reality and puts the perfect spin on it. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 07, 2005 | | Summary | Good Adaptation | Content
| I actually really liked this film. It was fun to watch even having read the Iliad several times when I was younger and knowing it is quite flawed compared to it. That is why it is called Troy and not The Iliad.
The producers of this film make no attempt to present this as actual history. They try to stick to the Iliad as much as possible but there are several realities that cause departure from this. First off making this a 10 year war would have been very confusing and hard to do. Second hollywood does not know how to stick to a timeless classic and undoubtedly believes it can improve upon one.
Despite knowing exactly what was supposed to happen I felt drawn in at every point. I didn't want people to die that I knew had to. The only thing I didn't like is that they let Paris live. I may be mistaken but I am almost certain he was killed.
I also wish they would have introduced Odysseus a little more. That way if they ever wanted to do the Odyssey viewers would have more to go on.
As for the prop work it was pretty much as I imagined it would be compared to writngs from the Iliad as well as what was known about that historical period.
Good film, worth watching. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 04, 2005 | | Summary | Ancient Battles Gap Style | Content
| This movie really has one major flaw...which would be prettified blonde Gap ad Brad Pitt. I've liked him in other movies in the past but here he just seems lost in his character and overwhemed by the stories scope. Eric Bana makes this movie watchable, I feel bad for him for ending up in flops like this and The Hulk because he is actually a decent actor. Orlando Bloom whines like a 3 year old girl the entire film and proves he has little resonace onscreen when he actually has to speak. The cinemotography is excellent and the rest of the supporting cast is good, but there still isn't anything too memorable going on here, this movie could have been a whole lot better, but it could also have been worse. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 03, 2005 | | Summary | An Epic Waste.... | Content
| ... of time and money, if not talent (said while maintaining Orlando Bloom's portrayal of Legolas in "The Lord of The Rings" trilogy was sublime). One can't help but wonder how much Dino DeLaurentis had to do with this. Yes, it's that bad. Uber Stud Muffin Brad Pitt struts and glares and smolders and generally adds to the charge of "defamation of character" for calling himself an actor. Jennifer Aniston, relax: "You're better off!"
"Jason and The Argonauts" this ain't. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 31, 2005 | | Summary | Homer Gets Colorized. | Content
| "May the gods keep the wolves in the hills and the women in our beds." Thus spoke Agamemnon at the start of this film, yet his words are strangely applicable to all men regardless of the age in which they were born. The same can be said of the epics of Homer. The working title of this film was The Illiad, but there are some major departures between the landmark of literature and the script from which the movie was made. Without the gods as characters, a great deal of the story loses its meaning. Furthermore, a "war, what is it good for?" angle has been introduced and instilled within the characters. In my humble opinion, such a stance concerning battles and death is strikingly misguided in relation to those who lived in the classical world. Sons and husbands dying was a daily occurrence, and many of the conversations in this movie are more reflective of twentieth century therapism than anything to do with the Greeks or Trojans.
However, despite one's historical objections to the interjections made by the characters in the name of our times, Troy is a very entertaining movie. Its 2+ hours float by, and I can't recall a film that was so pretty. That sounds condescending but it isn't. Its colors are vivid, and the views engaging. It pleases regardless of how disjointed the narrative may be. As for Brad Pitt as Achilles, if you ask me, he is the best part of the movie. I know some people won't buy him in such a role, but I was quite impressed. He won his acting bona fides with me years ago in Kalifornia and stood out in Snatch as well. Additionally, I thought Sean Bean as Odysseus was outstanding. |
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