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Troy Movie Rating:  Soap And Cheese | |
| Trojan prince Paris (Orlando Bloom) ignites a powder keg when he runs off with Spartan king Menelaus' (Brendan Gleeson) wife, Helen (Diana Kruger). In answer to this insult, Menelaus' brother, Mycenaean king Agamemnon (Brian Cox), unites the Greek tribes to make war on Troy. Joining him in the campaign is godlike warrior Achilles (Brad Pitt), fighting for neither king nor country, but purely for glory. | |
| This Greek mythology "lite" transforms formidable legend into soapy melodrama, wasting fine individual fight choreography, luminous cinematography, and Eric Bana's transcendent performance as Paris' protective brother, Hector. Inane dialogue, battles rendered in obvious computer generated imnages, and the egregious miscasting of the wimpy Bloom andpetulant Pitt doom this would-be epic. It's all cheese, no whiz. |
Eric Bana and Orlando Bloom.©2004 Warner Bros. |
Brad Pitt & Orlando Bloom's Bare Bottoms
