Entertaining pretty much from start to finish and that's well done for such a long film. The fighting is well filmed, I really liked the fight between Pitt and Bana, they show off some badass moves. The song that plays over the credits is the worst though. It's been a long time since I heard such a shitty song. Also, I still can't get over Orlando Bloom. I just don't get how he was in this, LOTR and the Pirates series. He sucks big time.

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

It's really just dumb, sexy fun. Brad Pitt and Eric Bana at their hottest. Oh yeah, and there's fighting and stuff.

A bad DVD meant that I missed 30 minutes from the middle of the film, but I didn't really care as I hadn't been enjoying the film. How can Hollywood take a story that has been in existence of thousands of years and make it rather boring? And why didn't they use more of Peter O'Toole who was rather good as King Priam?

(Director's cut)

This movie butchered the greatest epic of Ancient history. It hurts me to think about this movie. Although as a Historical Literature student, I'm probably biased...

I only hope someone else adapts the story and this movie gets forgotten.

At least Brad Pitt is hot.

It could have been shorter. It could have had a bit more character development. It could have had a stronger plot to string together the battles. However, I really liked it. Maybe it was the subject matter, maybe it was the cast, maybe it was the look of it and the cool battles, but I liked it. It's really the one-on-one battles that are more enjoyable and impressive than the large army clashes. It was interesting that they chose to show both sides equally, with neither being necessarily the "bad guys." More interesting is the fact that I don't think Helen was all that. Rose Byrne, as Hector's cousin (and Achilles' woman) Briseis, was far prettier. As usual, I won't go into great plot detail or anything, as every other review out there can tell you that. I'll just say it's worth catching, if only for the spectacular cast assembled here: Pitt, Bana, Gleeson, Cox, Bloom, O'Toole, Burrows, Bean, Byrne...

The summer of 2004 was not off to a good start, between this and Van Helsing. This one certainly looked pretty great, but it was inexplicably dull. Eric Bana was easily the best part of the film, and when he's no longer in it, you cease to care.

I saw this in theaters back in the day. Didn't love it. Thought it was kinda weak.

Watching the director's cut for the first time and I still feel about the same.

It feels too similar to other epics that came out around the same time, but without the heart. There's a big budget blockbuster sadness to the whole thing, a bottom line creation spat into theaters.

I don't remember the theatrical version being quite so bloody. There's some nasty violence, lots of head shots.

Unfortunately, the director's cut of Troy doesn't do what the DC of Kingdom of Heaven did to that movie: take a disappointment and turn it into gem.

Decent if you like stories or Rome.

It kills me that Bloom uses a arrow like a pansy here compared to LOTR.

This movie is really old school, and I love it. Definitely not without a few ugly marks, though. The script is a throwback to old-timey sword and sandal epics, and that type of dialogue requires a certain grand, larger-than-life presentation from the actors that Brad Pitt seemed to struggle with. The rest of the cast is absolutely perfectly cast, though - Peter O'Toole, Brian Cox, Brendan Gleeson, Sean Bean, Eric Bana, and yes, even Orlando Bloom were all born for these kinds of roles (well, Sean Bean was born for any kind of role, but I digress). This movie has gone down as one of my favorite modern epics, even if it isn't perfect.

Bom filme.

Good old fashioned epic with new fashioned blood n guts.