Genre: Action / Drama / War / Adventure / Romance
Tagline: For honor
Plot Outline: An adaptation of Homer’s great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved.
In 1193 B.C., Prince Paris (Bloom) of Troy makes a beautiful Greek woman, Helen (Kruger), fall in love with him, and convinces her to follow him away from her husband, Menelaus, the king of Sparta, setting the two nations at war with each other, as the Achaean Greeks lay siege to Troy, led by Agamemnon (Cox). Bana plays Hector, the greatest Trojan warrior; Byrne plays Briseis, a Trojan vestal virgin who is taken by and married to Achilles and later appropriated by Agamemnon, causing strife amongst the Greeks.
Cast OverView :
Brad Pitt .... Achilles
Julian Glover .... Triopas
Brian Cox .... Agamemnon
Nathan Jones .... Boagrius
Adoni Maropis .... Agamemnon’s Officer
Jacob Smith .... Messenger Boy
MPAA: Rated R for graphic violence and some sexuality/nudity.
Wolfgang Peterson and David Benioff’s adaptation of Homer’s Illiad story, about the battles and people beneath one of the greatest wars in human history, is like a 2nd place science fair project by a kid in middle school. You’re impressed, but there’s still some things that keep it from the prize.
Troy is loaded with CGI visuals carried over in tradition from Gladiator and LOTR, has wonderful cinematography by Roger Pratt, and certain scenes and performances are near perfect (Peter O’Toole in particular). But that doesn’t mean Peterson’s vision doesn’t carry with it some flaws.
Some of the visual effects, though intricate and vast, are a little much at times. In a sense they work well for the production, but I thought the film might’ve benefited from more extras, much like a big-scale production from the Golden age of Hollywood. Stars like Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, and Orlando Bloom are more or less capable to hold up the film, with Pitt creating conflict and poise in his Achilles where it sometimes isn’t needed, Bana creating a directness with what’s around him, and Bloom giving some over-acting (or under-acting) for his Paris.
The female characters aren’t of much praise and speculation except that their main part in the film is to discourage the men from fighting. This, as well as the score by James Horner with a single female singing voice in most battle scenes, gets a little much as well.
It seems as though Peterson is fond of dramatic excess in this film, and it serves as both an asset and a crutch. For example, in the fight scene between Achilles and Hector, there are repeated cut-aways to close-ups with the royal family looking on. This would be fine if it wasn’t interferring so much with the action going on.
This same focus on the fights and battle sequences also gets diverted with the score and cut-aways. But the good side to this is that this stylized, glossy, and occasionally brutal action gets pumped up. That’s how I felt overall about this picture- it’s exciting, interesting summer fare, but it won’t be a big contender against the epics of the past, or even the other action films due this summer and year.
Any way movie has to be good because the of Brad and story they choosed . the story of greatest greek Warrior Achilles who lived for his honor and died for his honor. He was invinsible but died ... many stories are popular about his death one of them is that his fall was becasue he dishonoured god of sun and many more ..
A good ride from our time where many people don’t know what is honor to the time where Greatest warrior loved to die for their honor...