Helen of Troy | Sienna Guillory, Matthew Marsden

Helen of Troy | Sienna Guillory, Matthew Marsden | MORE ACCURATE THAN "TROY"

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Helen of Troy

	Helen of Troy Sienna Guillory, Matthew Marsden Universal Home Video, 2004 average customer review:based on 103 reviews view larger image
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Great movie

To all of you who writes and thinks that you are unable to see the beauty of Helen... Too bad. Thats not the point of any movie so what makes you think that it could possibly be the point in this particular one. Helen of Troy (2003) is a great movie because of it's extremely good way of teaching a little history without being boring. And then again... Helen of Troy is kinda like Romeo & Juliet. A love story but still a war story. Next time you review a movie remember movies like Helen of Troy and Romeo & Juliet doesen't need an epic war scene.

MORE ACCURATE THAN "TROY"

I have read "The Illiad", and thought "Helen of Troy" was MUCH more accurate to the original than the Brad Pit movie "Troy".

The storyline and plot is much more detailed.

I enjoyed this movie alot. But I also enjoyed "Troy".

Watch them both and you will have fun contrasting the two (or three if you include the book).

It's like seeing the same thing from a different point of view.

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Mixed emotions from Greece

Helen of Troy is a movie that brings to life the director's version of how he would have liked Homer's story of the Trojan War to have been. The movie does not faithfully follow the original, rather it is INSPIRED by Homer's Iliad, and therefore has a great deal of flaws and deviations from the original story. One could list one after another the discrepancies that occur, and for those that have read/studied the Iliad, it is common knowledge that the list would be very long indeed, some will say too long...
From this very long list there are several important alteration such as when Achilles fought and killed Hector following Patroklos' (Achilles' close friend's) death at the hands of the Trojan prince. Patroklos is nowhere to be seen in the movie!!! Achilles himself is played by an actor who is totally bold (???), when according to the Iliad he should be blond, not to mention that he has the appearance of a northern barbarian (???) rather than that of a Greek hero. Even though this is Hollywood and one should be more flexible and lenient when dealing with adaptations, one should also keep in mind that this is the Iliad in question and not some modern twentieth century novel.

In addition, all throughout the film one gets the feeling, on and off, that they are watching an extended episode of Xena as a result of the Xena-style setting, action and at times even Xena-style dialogues.

Moreover, ALL the actors after 10 YEARS of WAR had not changed one bit from the opening scenes. They looked EXACTLY as they did at the beginning of the film!

Furthermore, the deaths of Paris and Hector as well as the fall of Troy instead of being played out in full, are crammed together in a few minutes at the end.

Lastly, special emphasis must be made on the point that the Trojans are Greeks too, with the same language, the same gods, the same names etc, which is another thing that the movie does not stress enough, leaving relations between the combatants vague/open to any theory.

Therefore, the only real problem arises when the majority of people (and most people have NOT read the Iliad) who see the movie start believing that events happened the way the movie depicts/portrays and not the way they actually did occur according to Homer. Consequently, due to the distortion of Homer's work, the movie poses a very serious danger of producing armies of misinformed people who think they know Homer when they really do not. That is NOT good!

On the positive side, the movie is action packed, the costumes are excellent, and the special effects are very good! The acting, however, is average. John Rhys-Davies, and the rest of the actors have done a fair job of providing an entertaining film. The actors playing Menelaus and Achilles could not have been more off. Helen (Sienna Guillory) was very good looking and had her share of "light", nude scenes, but acting is not her really strong point...

Hopefully, more movies will be made set in the ancient times, as the demand for them is definitely there.

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