Troy - La caduta di Troia

I found the first episode excruciatingly boring but, in a fit of masochism, I watched it from start to finish. The BBC has managed to mangle a classic Greek tale and in doing so it has committed cultural appropriation. Now this is what I found inexcusable. The Brits have myths the BBC is welcome to take liberties with but the Iliad is not one of them. And we haven't even gotten to the black Achilles yet.

Laghfably anacronistic, badly directed, badly played. What a mess; and yet it was made by professionals who should have known better..It's a mystery. Easily one of the worst flicks in recent filn history.

4/6/18. I watched the first episode. That was enough to tell me it wasn't going to be worth my time to watch 7 more. Sub-par acting didn't help. I love movies about ancient Greece, but this would have been a waste of time. Could have worked better as a 4-episode mini-series, if done right. Or, just watch 2004's Brad Pitt's Troy. No way you can improve on that one.

We struggled through the first episode and I do not think we shall be watching any more.

I'll disregard all the politics and hate going on here and just say that whilst I thought the acting and the sets were first class, the whole concept was lost to me. I hated the flash-forward-backs. These added nothing except confusion.

I gave it 3/10 and I tink I was being very generous.

Script writers try to outdo Homer! Casting is PC crap. The premise of the Apple of Discord is just blown to hell ! It's a waste of data bytes and any film which may have been expanded! Edith Hamilton and other retellers of mythology have done a much better job.