At the same time the armour and equipment of both were equally impressive, and more or less of an age. The Trojans were vaguely Asian or near-Eastern, and the Greeks were vaguely Germanic or Western. Things worth noting: the contrasting balance between the two sides seemed particularly well done. Epic is not an easy genre in which to satisfy the nit-pickers: it paints a story with broad strokes, and it's not difficult to find fault with smaller details. This is as lavish and enjoyable an old-fashioned film epic as I have seen, and much better than most. Reviewed by chaswe-28402 10 / 10 Gods envy men's mortality: myth is mutableįar better than I expected from its reputation and the critics. The whole movie shows their battle struggles and the foreshadowing of fate in this adaptation of Homer's classic "The Iliad." But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans.
So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband, Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy.
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