Brad is worth the ticket price alone and others turned in creditable performances, particularly Eric Bana as an upright family man who just happens to be the prince of a warlike city-state, and Sean Bean as Odysseus the Ironic.

| Jan 9, 2018

Violent, watered-down version of The Iliad.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 29, 2010

A numbingly reliable tick-tock of expository set pieces alternating with vast CGI-aided battle scenes.

| Jun 24, 2006

'A valiant but doomed affair, as carefully constructed -- and ultimately as hollow -- as the Trojan Horse itself.'

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 22, 2005

Wooden horse, wooden acting, wouldn't bother if I were you.

| Mar 6, 2005

Bruising battles and some stirring performances make Troy enjoyable, if rather long.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 6, 2004

A fairly routine action picture with an advanced case of grandeuritis.

Full Review | Aug 7, 2004

Harsh, serious, and both exhilarating and tragic, the right tonal combination for Homer.

Full Review | Aug 1, 2004

Dramatic scene after dramatic scene fails to take flight: too many face-to-face quarrels, flatly blocked and bluntly written.

| Jul 6, 2004

The latest in a very long line of films made to give us those things that other mediums could not provide.

Full Review | Jun 23, 2004

The wrath of Brad looks more like a migraine.

| May 23, 2004

The end result is the sound and fury of Homer undone.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 22, 2004

It's massive, opulent, passionate and -- unlike most summer time-wasters -- surprisingly intelligent.

| May 20, 2004

A hugely entertaining film, sprinkled with moments of brilliance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 18, 2004

... several of the scenes are just some of the best battle scenes I've seen in a long time.

Full Review | May 17, 2004

It is also, unfortunately, a mysteriously cold production filled with stagy, melodramatic characterizations doing little to bring these classic and timeless characters to life.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 15, 2004

Troy isn't so much a simplified retelling of The Iliad as a re-imagined version of it, told wholly without imagination.

| May 15, 2004

Solid entertainment, true to the '50s formalism that so inspires its grand production design, ornate costumes, proverbial cast of thousands and sometimes painfully earnest dialogue.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 14, 2004

Often plays like what it is: a clunky toga-and-sandals picture, with Hollywood compromises abounding.

| May 14, 2004

As summer-movie entertainment, Troy delivers the Trojan horse, and then some.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 14, 2004