dani t

ok this movie actually angered me so much that i'm writing a review (which i never do.) i couldn't go a minute without cringing and criticising how inaccurate and awful it was; there is barely any compensation to make up for its blatant homophobia and whitewashing. for once i actually find myself agreeing with a bad rotten tomatoes rating! here are some of my reasons: 1. I'd say around half the deaths were inaccurate lol and like why was Patroclus achilles’ cousin?? And why did he only have like 5 mins screen time? patroclus was VITAL to the story, and the movie is openly homophobic in making him achilles' cousin--they were lovers, and the death of a cousin is not quite justifiable for achilles' actions here, it just doesn't make sense--especially since they don't flesh out their relationship. 2. Briseis is NOT achilles’ love interest (she never was) and so why was it necessary to make her??? Completely ruined her character and she also never met Patroclus even though he was the one who saved her??? 3. The entire movie took place over a month. Like i'm telling you, they finished the trojan war (start to finish) in around a month. Did they forget the part when it literally took 10 yrs lol 4. Ending was pretty inaccurate, half the people who should've died escaped and like people who should’ve survived died 5. A very messy movie in general, the writing was all over the place and if you're gonna claim it was based on the Iliad then at least read the book 😭 it was also very focused on bloodshed and the fight scenes took up 2/3 of the movie 6. Didn’t show much emotional depth or development of the characters, in my opinion the acting was pretty wooden for everything except for the Priam begging for hector’s return 7. Just bloody inaccurate I couldn’t watch it without criticising every second. if you're gonna base something off the iliad then please for the love of god actually follow the story. also they completely left out the gods, who are essential to the story line! all in all, i was extremely disappointed. i don't think anything could have made up for this mess of a movie. that being said, go read the iliad or the song of achilles if you want something that is what it's supposed to be. 0/10