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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
One of the 'Epics' I never really got the nack of 3 hour films, 'Lord of the rings' etc. but Troy is a powerful action packed film with plenty of hard fighting.
Troy is an 'Epic' you may find the term when you look at Kingdom of heaven, Gladiator or Master and Commander. I can clearly see Troy up with films like that. As for the film iself, it has an amazing cast and i was surprised to see Sean Bean as well since i didnt read the small print lol bu yeah and it featured Peter O'toole who ive seen in many other films. As... more info
better and more powerful... this cut is better than the first cut because this has many things that the first cut does not have.in fact this cut is the ideal cut for a historical epic which is my favourite type of movie.so i like the movie troy but i like this cut more.without this cut i would certainly give this movie 3 stars for its history's sake but i think this cut deserves 4 stars.brad pitt shows himself as achilleus in the first scenes and he is good at his role.as a whole this film is certainly not bad and to me this cut is... more info
Disappointed I enjoyed the original cut, despite it's unnecessary inaccuracies, and I was swayed to buy the director's cut by a review that referred to character development. What nonsense! What the director's cut gives us is almost 30 minutes of extra gore, babies being tossed into fires, decapitations, etc etc. One nod to Odysseus that doesn't really expand hugely on his character. And just for added annoyance, the music has been butchered and the movie is split onto two discs. Grrr! My advice? Stick to the... more info
Much better then before Troy (Director's Cut) is so much better than the theatrical version that it is almost hard to believe that they are in essence the same movie. That is not to say that this new version is perfect, it isn't. As with the Theatrical version, the acting is in some instances passable at best and it takes quite a few liberties with the accepted version of events according to Homer. However, what it does do is make the film run far more smoothly than it did before. Considering over 30 minutes of footage has been... more info