Thats why its a movie in the cinema, not the history channel I know the real story of the trojan war and all that, but i liked Troy, one of my favourites, besides Last Samurai. And paris wasn't that good of an archer, i mean he missed archilles and hit his heel which is what was supposed to happen anyway. the iliad focused alot on andromeche and her suffering, the movie only touched on it, but what im trying to say is, the movie is not following the illiad word for word and thats good, cause it be boring otherwise .
Im happy they didn;t include god or godly influences into the movie just hinted at it cause im a skeptic and i doubt that it happened exactly as the iliad said it did. the abscence of the gods makes the movie a little more real to me >< and less of a matrix cross lord of the realms movie however the slight hints tho, were enough in "my opinion" to make the people that have read the iliad happy of the coincidence of i.e. desecration of apollo's temple followed by plague to the greeks, achilles mother gathering the sea shells on the beach etc. Tho i grant, plague in 3 days of battle is highly unlikely
High points of this movie for me, would be great battle scenes, and duels in middle of the battle.
Although once again being the skeptic that i am, im sure didn't happen . but yeh very nice choreography(sp?)