An entertaining movie. A little heavy on the overwrought Hollywood cliché dosage for my taste, but still enjoyable.

In some of the battle scenes (particularly, as lines of troops mached into one another to fight), a few of the shots were dead ringers for Lord of the Rings battle cinematography. In the credits, I looked to see if there was any mention of the "Massive" software engine. There wasn't. But I'd bet that either they used it with no mention in the credits, or managed to conjure up a nice in-house clone.

High points: Peter O'Toole's performance as the king of Troy. Well-choreographed fights. Diane Kruger's performance as Helen, which mostly consisted of standing around looking cute enough that I could almost believe someone might send an entire army after her. Brad Pitt's charming performance as Achilles.

Low points: Overlong and obvious dialog scenes in which the actors (and writers) were competent enough to convince me I was watching an expensive blockbuster feature, but not daring enough to make me really care (Peter O'Toole excepted). Brad Pitt's charming performance as Achilles.