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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 1544338" data-attributes="member: 115">Absolutely terrible.  I've never wanted to walk out of a movie so badly before, and I would have if not for the fact that I drove my friends and I there.The good about it is rather slim... the acting was decent, cinematography was good.  Action was okay, but really nothing special nor groundbreaking.  The sole exception to this was the Hector/Achilles fight, which was the best part of the movie, and highly enjoyable.  Otherwise it was pretty ho-hum. The script... oh dear god, the script.  Now, I did not expect it to be any more than based on The Iliad, which is one of my favorite myths.  In fact, I'd say my expectations were downright rock bottom, because of my love for the source material.  Even that didn't help this steaming pile of turd. First off... the dialogue was terrible.  Not only did it sound completely rediculous, but so very obviously only existed to fill the gap between action scenes.  I give credit to the actors for doing the best they could with it, but you can't make crap anything more than crap.  My impression (and presumably that of much of the audience, who were laughing throughout the film) was that it was written by a high-school student. Secondly, the pacing is absolutely horrible.  For the middle hour and a half or so, I was completely bored out of my skull, and no amount of action helped any... the sole exception again being the Hector/Achilles fight.  By the time the big ending sequence came along, I was on the edge of my seat... waiting for the movie to be over.  I didn't particularly care what happened by the time the action started to pick up again... hell, the Trojans could have won, I wouldn't have cared.  I was simply bored.  162 minutes was way too long for this film.  It's called editing, and people need to learn how to use it. Third, the music.  There is such a thing as overusing a particular style of music, and this was it.  That whole crooning-soprano thing just got old, fast. In the end, this film was nothing but an attempt to cash in on the success of Lord of the Rings, with a bit of Braveheart thrown in there.  Unfortunately, unlike LotR and Braveheart, Troy had a script that I wouldn't use for toilet-paper.</blockquote>

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