Troy

Released Year: 2004
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen

Casted by:
Brad Pitt as Achilles
Eric Bana as Hector
Orlando Bloom as Paris
Diane Kruger as Helen
Rose Byrne as Briseis
Peter O'Toole as King Priam
Brian Cox as King Agamemnon
Story:

King Agamemnon lead the Greece to conquer a lot of places with the join forces with Troy and their best warrior Achilles. Back in the Sparta, Menelaus celebrate their victory with the 2 troy's prince, Prince Hector and Prince Paris. Paris has been having an affair with Menelaus' wife Helena "Helen" and brought her away back to Troy on the next morning. Hector wanna send Helen back to Sparta to avoid war between the 2 countries but Paris insists to go back with Helen and force Hector no choice but to bring everyone back to Troy.

Back in Troy, King Priam accepted Helen to be in Troy and believe the Troy's wall can defense any attack. On the next day, King Agamemnon & King Menelaus already led 1000 ships of warriors to attack. First ship is by Achilles and he succeeded to won the first war and Hector's cousin sister Briseis was caught. On the next morning, King Menelaus fight with Paris and Paris cowardly ran away and Hector killed Menelaus. This pissed off Agamemnon and he wanted to take over Troy.

Achilles safe Briseis when the warriors wanted to rape her, brought Briseis back to his own camp, Achilles has sex with Briseis instead. On the next war, Hector has scared off the Greece's warriors by his braveness and King Agamemnon wanted Achilles to fight for Greece. But falling in love with Briseis, Achilles refused to help. But Achilles' cousin Patroclus pretend to be Achilles and lead the team to fight with Hector. Hector cut off Patroclus' throat and only realize that is not Achilles but just only a teenager. Achilles get angry and ignore Briseis' beg and went to fight with Hector.

One to one, Hector lost to Achilles and stab to die. But the night before the fight, Hector inform his wife Andromache to lead the people to run through a tunnel if Troy is attack by Greece. Although Hector was killed, but Greece is still unable to went into Troy. Greece then make a wooden trojan horse for Troy with warriors hidden inside. The silly King Priam thought the Greece has give up the attack due to the protection of Apollo and took the big trojan horse in the city and celebrate. At night, the Greece sneak out from the horse and slave the whole city. Andromache led the people away from the tunnel together with Helen.

Achilles went in to safe Briseis before the spartans got her. Paris shot Achilles' heel with an arrow. The weakness of Achilles' strength and he cannot stand and fight anymore. Paris shot a few arrow and took Achilles' life.

L² Scored: 6.5/10

L² Comment:

The only selling point of this movie is the 3 hot guy's sexy body, Diane Kruger's juicy breast and nothing at all. Seriously, i don't know who write the dialogue, its dumb and stupid. They spend so much on the production and actors, but why can't they write better dialogue and script?

But based on the true story, Helen of troy is same like Chan Yuan Yuan (陈圆圆) in dynasty Ming. Both woman has caused an empire to be vanished because of their beauty. And i found it quite silly an unacceptable...

The basically the 6.5 i gave is for Eric Bana 2 + Orlando Bloom 2 + Brad Pitt 2.5

p/s: Achilles Heel - Deadly weakness in spite of overall strength, that can actually or potentially lead to downfall (wikipedia)