Troie: La chute d'une cité

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.

Why such a title for my review you may ask.

Well I am Greek and apparently it's only racist and deemed to be cultural appropriation when you switch the color of a historic character if he's not white. Never mind the fact that the whole thing was horrible in every way possible.

The Iliad is a historic masterpiece, and with the story fully laid out for them, the writers managed to butcher it.

NOT RECOMMENDED.

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.

That was 8 wasted hours of my life that I'll never get back. It wasn't total rubbishy, but pretty damn close.

I can live with the anachronisms since it's not a documentary, but the acting and paceing was just horrible. Most of the time I just sat with my phone checking my FB and instagram. Uncharismatic actors with poor directing.

Come to think of it, it was complete garbage.

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.