Troy

Paul Martin, 17 May 2004

Troy is okay. Not nearly as good as Gladiator. The music could have been a LOT better. I heard that the original score by Gabriel Yared was really good, but they fired him and got James Horner instead. Well, James Horner didn't do too good a job, and that left the movie feeling left high and dry. Music is supportive of a movie, and can make or break a movie. It's a shame that it nearly breaks this one. There is also only a few likable characters. Hector, played by Eric Bana is one, and his wife is the other. The rest are all womanizers and idiots. And that's not to leave the women out, they are just as bad as the men. The action was awesome, as were some of the fight scenes, but overall, not a very entertaining film. This movie was two and a half hours long and FELT two and a half hours long. Watching The Return of the King at three hours and fifteen minutes, you never felt the length, but with this movie, about halfway through, you want them to build the Trojan Horse already. And then there is the massacre of Troy which is incredibly brutal. But overall, not a movie that I'll be seeing more than once in theatres, and who knows if I'll rent it.

6/10