Overall, well done movie...
This movie was very much about Achilles role and the battle scenes. If you can live with that, then it's a great movie. If you were expecting "The Illiad" in its classic form, or something similiar to every other adaptation of this story, then you may be disappointed.
For me, it started out a little rocky. I was slightly bored by the first half an hour because the storytelling was lacking (Achilles is an awesome warrior, Sparta and Troy make peace, Helen leaves with Paris, and let the war begin!).
It was slightly refreshing to see a version that wasn't really about Helen. Yes, she was the catalyst, but it was really about Agamemnon's greed. Yet, I still would have liked to have seen more of an introduction to the history of these characters and a better timeline of events. (They made it seem like the Trojan Horse was built overnight and that Troy fell 12 days after Hector's death). But, then again, if they included everything, the film would have been four hours long.
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Originally posted by TigerLilly
Question -- that priestess girl who hooked up with Achilles, does that character exist in the actual myth or no? I didn't know about that character.
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Yes, she does. From Sparknotes: "Achilles’ wrath at Agamemnon for taking his war prize, the maiden Briseis, forms the main subject of the Iliad."