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I'd give it a "C+"
Pros
- Brian Cox as Agamemnon, Sean Bean as Odysseus, and Eric Bana as Hector were all excellent, excellent performances.
- The Achilles-Hector one-on-one battle was beautiful.
- Sort of a spoiler, but if you don't expect this as soon as the scene starts, you're an idiot (highlight it): Nathan Jones dies in the first ten minutes!
- It did a pretty good job of capturing the brutality of that period's warfare.
- Helen was suitably beautiful.
Cons
- Waaaaaaaaay too long. You could have shaved a half-hour of fighting out of it and had a hell of a movie.
- An actor the genius of Peter O'Toole had criminally little to do as Priam.
- A few "historical" inaccuracies. Of course, "The Iliad" was written almost a half-millenium after the fact, so we have no idea how accurate or inaccurate it is.
- A bunch of the not-quite-main characters were cast with actors who look a lot alike, and I had trouble figuring out who was who on a couple of occasions.
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