http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Sat, 15 May 2004 16:46:51 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/05/15/150313.php#comment-64207 I agree with most of what you said. Eric Bana was definately the standout actor, Sean Bean and Tyler Mane were excellent in their limited screen time and Brad Pitt was definately more believable as a lover than a fighter. Although I did enjoy Achilles' one on one fight scenes quite a lot! Peter O' Toole was superb as well as Brian Cox as the two warring kings Priam and Agamemnon. The most obvious fault of this movie for me was the screenplay. The dialogue at the beginning of the movie was atrocious, especially the first scene with Helen and Paris. There were far too many points where the dialogue strayed into modern speech, and Orlando Bloom suffered the most for it. I also should mention that he does not seem to have the acting ability at this point in his career to pull off any sort of accent other than his normal one. I did think that his performance improved over the course of the movie though. I am a huge fan of ancient history and legends, so I am always happy to see movies like this, but overall I must say I was disappointed. A better script could have made this a great movie, and I would have loved to have seen the filmmakers have the guts to add in the meddling of the greek gods in a physical manner. Nice little set-up at the end to do a sequel based on the Odyssey though... 64207@blogcritics.org Sat, 15 May 2004 16:46:51 EDT