Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance, War, Drama, Epic, Love, Betrayal, Gore, Tragedy, Military, Mistaken Identity, Infidelity, Revenge
Tagline: For Honor
Plot: Throughout time, men have waged war. Some for power, some for glory, some for honor — and some for love.In ancient Greece, the passion of two of history's most legendary lovers, Paris, Prince of Troy (ORLANDO BLOOM) and Helen (DIANE KRUGER), Queen of Sparta, ignites a war that will devastate a civilization. When Paris steals Helen away from her husband, King Menelaus (BRENDAN GLEESON), it is an insult that cannot be suffered. Familial pride dictates that an affront to Menelaus is an affront to his brother Agamemnon (BRIAN COX), powerful King of the Myceneans, who soon unites all the massive tribes of Greece to steal Helen back from Troy in defense of his brother's honor. In truth, Agamemnon's pursuit of honor is corrupted by his overwhelming greed — he needs control of Troy to ensure the supremacy of his already vast empire. The walled city, under the leadership of King Prium (PETER O'TOOLE) and defended by mighty Prince Hector (ERIC BANA), is a citadel that no army has been able to breach. One man alone stands as the key to victory or defeat over Troy — Achilles (BRAD PITT), believed to be the greatest warrior alive. Arrogant, rebellious and seemingly invincible, Achilles has no allegiance to anyone or anything, save his own glory. It is his insatiable hunger for eternal
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 There are times when Troy is stirring and engaging. However, at least as often, it is flat. There's really too much story to cram into a l65-minute period, yet, paradoxically, the movie seems longer than its bloated running length. And all of the visual majesty that hundreds of millions of dollars can buy cannot obscure the perfunctory and unsatisfying development of the major characters.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
Brad Pitt in a leather miniskirt, a Helen who couldn't launch a dinghy: This whole movie is one big Achilles' heel.--Stephanie Zacharek (Salon)
Homer's estate should sue. The movie sidesteps the existence of the Greek gods, turns its heroes into action movie cliches and demonstrates that we're getting tired of computer-generated armies. Better a couple of hundred sweaty warriors than two masses of 50,000 men marching toward one another across a sea of special effects.  --Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
Troy wastes so much breath promoting Achilles’ strengths that the movie begins to sound like Don King hyping Tyson the week before a pay-per-view event.  --Sean O'Connell (FilmCritic.com)
It's certainly not a bad film, but it's not even close to greatness. Possibly the years biggest disappointment.  --Carl Lazarevic (MovieWeb)
For the most part this is a war story and one that remains as relevant as ever. Mostly it is a story about character and the perils of greed, vanity, arrogance and bloodlust. You remember character? Well, if all you see are movies -- maybe not. --Blake Snyder (MovieWeb)
Screw Van Helsing! This movie marks the true start of the summer movie season, and it's definitely worth the extended stay in the theater.  --Brian Gallagher (MovieWeb)
This 21st century peplum was directed by Wolfgang Petersen, clearly taking a few pointers from Ridley Scott's Gladiator but coming up with a film more complex and epic, if not quite as involving on a personal level.  --Kevin N. Laforest (Montreal Film Journal)
As memorable and fulfilling as a good bag of movie popcorn. 68/100--Mike DeWolfe (Apollo Guide)
Troy is an action picture of stunning scope and stirring spectacle, with a love story between two callow nitwits that is its Achilles heel. The movie attempts to compensate for this with frequent visits to the brawny, tawny contours of the rest of Achilles' body.  --Bruce Newman (San Jose Mercury News)
Overall, this film just ran a little too long, a little too redundant and a little too boring for my taste. It's a decent movie, with solid performances from both Brad Pitt and Eric Bana, but I can't say that any specific character intrigued me much, involved me on any type of emotional level and ultimately, had me giving a shit about what happened to them. 5/10--'JoBlo' (JoBlo.com)
Epic action drama, impressively directed by Wolfgang Petersen – the jaw-dropping set-pieces more than compensate for the frequent lapses in script and performance. --Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)
...what really wrecks Wolfgang Petersen's "Troy" is some of the worst casting in recent Hollywood history: The lackluster ensemble hired by the director is overwhelmed by the generally impressive sets and crowd scenes (aided by computer-generated images), by the task of playing epic heroes and by David Benioff's rambling, tone-deaf screenplay "inspired by Homer's 'Iliad.'"--Jonathan Foreman (New York Post)
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Homer
O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Odyssey, Helen of Troy | |
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Julian Glover
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, For Your Eyes Only |
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Finding Nemo, Black Hawk Down, Hulk |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
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Gabriel Yared
The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain |
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| "Underwhelming" is perhaps the best way to describe 'Troy'. There's no denying that it's been impressively put-together, but there's a constant feeling that there's nothing here we haven't seen done before - and better - in a hundred epics to have gone before it. Despite its myriad of action sequences, the whole thing moves along at a snail's pace, so loaded is it with fist-bitingly bad dialogue. 6/10 --Gary Panton (Movie Gazette)
Petersen, a director who knows his way around a crane shot better than almost anyone, rallies his troops but can’t ignite his actors, and the end result is the sound and fury of Homer undone.  --Marc Savlov (Austin Chronicle)
There is a lot of guts and glory here, but not a lot of heart.--Paul Clinton (CNN Showbiz)
The characters of legend are tossed about in the story as needed, without much background to make us really care about any of their places in the legendary story that is being recreated here. Then again, we're used to epic films running light on heavy duty character development and Troy was not a difficult sit.--Chuck Schwartz (The Cranky Critic)
Troy is an adequate summer popcorn movie – a war movie with the pretense of history. But given its 2.5+ hours running time, it’s a shame that more wasn’t accomplished within its frames. --Harrison Cheung (Movie-Gurus.com)
It's a timeless tale, well worth being made into a grand film, and with an impressive cast and Petersen's competent skills, Troy does loosely recreate the scope and vision of Homer's original poem with one near fatal exception -- the dialogue stinks. --Vince Leo (Qwipster.net)
TROY’s most daring and most intriguing accomplishment is how it has taken what may be the quintessential story about warfare being glorious and turned it neatly on its head. --Andrea Chase (Killer Movie Reviews)
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