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(1 - 50) of 56 OFCS Rating: 52% Rotten Page   12   > Next 4/5 "Se disfruta sin culpas si no se compara con la obra que le inspira, y si no se busca un apego estricto a la Historia, sino un tono épico de estilo Hollywood ..."   Cinenganos   Alex Ramirez 6/10 "Aside from being the first Hair Movie of the year, Troy also claims the prize of being the first Get Your Fat Butt to the Gym Movie of the year."   Freeze Dried Movies   Brian Juergens "The camera creeps and swoops around Pitt and Bana, as if they're Kirk and Spock in some kind of hyper-realized "Amok Time." "   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2/5 "Troy is a Cliffs Notes version without the helpful observations, a classic fable reduced to soap opera cheese and action movie idiocy."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius A- "One of the world's greatest legends has been reborn as one of the year's greatest films; here's why it's true."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 2/4 "Like a Trojan Horse, Troy is built on a shell that at first glance is appealing, but reveals its deception when you least expect it to."   Cinemaphile.org   David Keyes 3/4 "...there's just something exciting about watching two men attack each other with crude weapons."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair B- "Won't disappoint fans of such splashy Hollywood spectacles."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "Reminiscent of a cheesy Harlequin romance that just so happens to have lots of big battles and expensive effects."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman D "For a film that shows nothing but utter contempt for the stories it was born of, it is strange at how much the filmmakers require the viewer to be well versed in the history"   FilmJerk.com   Edward Havens B+ "This is a huge movie, with huge sets and huge characters, and it's nearly as enthralling as the glorious epics it emulates."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 1.5/4 "It’s lost in a sandstorm of directionless mediocrity. Wolfgang Petersen had a thousand to choose from and missed every boat completely."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress B "It is flawed, but its mistakes are those made by someone trying to make this material intellectually tenable."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 3/4 "Un gran filme si consideramos sus virtudes dramáticas y la calidad de sus actores."   Doncinema.com   Flavio J. Arosemena 2/4 "As physically stimulating as Troy purports to be in content, the mental aspect of this film has all the charge of a defective catapult. "   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng C+ "For two hours or so, 'Troy' is a reasonably good boys' adventure story--a sort of Classics Comics version of Homer. In the final act, however, it goes haywire."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "Troy boasts one remarkable and poignant scene: a surprising encounter between a grieving king and the warrior who has killed his son and taken away his body."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat B- "Inspired by one of the great pieces of classic literature, it's pure Hollywood formula. Just barely worthwhile."   Mixed Reviews   Gabriel Shanks 2.5/4 "All of the visual majesty that hundreds of millions of dollars can buy cannot obscure the perfunctory and unsatisfying development of the major characters."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2.5/4 "a throwback to the old Hollywood sword-and-sandal epics of the 1950s, but with more blood"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 5/5 "Big, bold, superb epic mixes timeless themes with here-and-now issues to strong, startling effect."   Netflix   James Rocchi 3/4 "Cheerfully reminiscent of the classic old-school epics."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 8/10 "Blustery acting, big battle sequences, and lots of 'sweeping epic' shots, and there you have it -- Troy, a mainstream film depiction of The Iliad, at last."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 5/10 "...a little too long, a little too redundant and a little too boring for my taste."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 59/100 "Homer’s Iliad is stunningly recreated, but never achieves the greatness it deserves."   FilmFocus   Joe Utichi B "a 'chick flick' war adventure that suitably adapts Homer to inspire thousands of high school comparative essays. "   Old School Reviews   John A. Nesbit 7/10 "Troy is not a great film, not even an especially good film, but it is an engrossing film, sometimes for the wrong reasons but close enough for Hollywood."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio ""Troy" was an investment, but there's very little for the audience to invest in."   Light Views   John Larsen 3/4 "'Espectacular relato épico que, a pesar de su falta de emotividad, es un claro ejemplo de cine de calidad.'"   Moviola   Jorge Avila Andrade 1.5/5 "Had I been more familiar with the Iliad source material - "source" in that the names and locations are similar - I would have been furious and bored, instead of just bored."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 3.5/4 "To me the most sympathetic character in the film is Hector, played with smoldering intensity by Eric Bana."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest B- "director Wolfgang Petersen and his cinematographer Roger Pratt fetishize their Achilles, Brad Pitt, with more gusto than they do the woman whose face launched all those boats"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2.5/5 "Petersen orchestrates a handsome battle sequence, but this attenuated stew of stagy posturing and unconvincing domestic drama runs aground on Pitt's preening deportment and drama-class line readings."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 7/10 " This is a frequently flawed film, but for fans of classical adventures it is worth seeing anyway."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper "[S]ome powerful relevance, amidst the old-fashioned grandeur, in its indictment of senseless war based on deceit and glory-seeking..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2/5 "Moderately impressive battle scenes with a framework of insipidly teenaged dialog about love and honor."   Goatdog's Movies   Michael W. Phillips, Jr. 2/4 "A prime example of Hollywood “epic” making at its most misguided."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B- "This movie is the watered-down, greatest hits, Classic Comics version. It's mostly about the fighting. And Achilles doesn't rage so much as pout and glower."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 2/4 "Wolfgang Peterson’s Troy naturally subscribes to a no-shirt rule for ancient Greece’s most prominent heroes."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 3/5 "O apelo universal da história narrada por Homero é o suficiente para que o filme mereça ser visto."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 3/5 "Worth seeing for the fight scenes, for Bana's understated Hector, for Sean Bean as the pragmatic and crafty Odysseus, and for the spectacle of the Greek army laying siege to the mightiest city of the ancient world."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar "An oddly uninspiring film that is as puny in ambition as it is epic in scope."   Critic Doctor   Peter Sobczynski 3/5 "If only Petersen and Benioff had stayed truer to the original tale and resisted Hollywood's tendency to dumb-down the story and big-up the production design."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 4/5 "The face-off between Achilles and Hector is beautifully realized, all the more wounding because we can precisely read each man's emotions going into the fight."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves B- "How many summer pictures can you name where you're not certain if the right side wins?"   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux C+ "While the story doesn't work all that well as a drama or romance, it does offer good fight scenes and some great spectacle in the grand Hollywood tradition."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten 4.5/5 "There are well-hewn and deeply engaging character shadings that capably fortify the moments between Troy's astounding action sequences."   eFilmCritic.com   Scott Weinberg 3/5 "a mismatch of talent not even a Trojan Horse could overcome"   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell "Troy isn't so much a simplified retelling of The Iliad as a re-imagined version of it, told wholly without imagination."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek B "Not a story of heroes and villians, of good triumphing over evil, but of flawed, selfish men locked in a deadly struggle in which there can be no winners, only losers."   Decent Films Guide   Steven D. 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