Troy Critic Reviews

Entertainingly epic eye candy. Read the full review

All Hollywood and no Homer, but within its limits, it's a vigorous, entertaining movie. Read the full review

Troy lacks the focus of Gladiator, not to mention that Oscar winner's scrappy wit. But why kick a gift horse when you're in summer-movie heaven? Read the full review

That's the only way to enjoy Wolfgang Petersen's nearly three-hour epic: as a Pitt vehicle. In a role that requires larger-than-life dimensions, he's pretty terrific.Read the full review

Far from great, but much farther from awful, Troy offers several popcorn buckets' worth of good old-fashioned time at the movies. Read the full review

There are times when Troy is stirring and engaging. However, at least as often, it is flat. Read the full review

For what it is -- a big, expensive, occasionally campy action movie full of well-known actors speaking in well-rounded accents -- Troy is not bad. It has the blocky, earnest integrity of a classic comic book, and it labors to respect the strangeness and grandeur of its classical sources. Read the full review

Despite a sensationally attractive cast and an array of well-staged combat scenes presented on a vast scale, Wolfgang Petersen's highly telescoped rendition of the Trojan War lurches ahead in fits and starts for much of its hefty running time, to OK effect. Read the full review

At its intermittent best, Troy suggests a primitive pro-wrestling smackdown with epochal consequences. At its worst, it's a throwback to the ham-fisted sword-and-sandal international coproductions of the early 1960s: "The 300 Spartans" with better sets. Barely. Read the full review