Troy (2004)

All Critics (222) | Top Critics (46) | Fresh (120) | Rotten (101) | DVD (38)

A numbingly reliable tick-tock of expository set pieces alternating with vast CGI-aided battle scenes.

June 24, 2006 Full Review

Jessica Winter

Time Out

Top Critic

A fairly routine action picture with an advanced case of grandeuritis.

August 7, 2004 Full Review

Peter Rainer

New York Magazine

Top Critic

Harsh, serious, and both exhilarating and tragic, the right tonal combination for Homer.

August 1, 2004

David Denby

New Yorker

Top Critic

The latest in a very long line of films made to give us those things that other mediums could not provide.

June 23, 2004

Stanley Kauffmann

The New Republic

Top Critic

It's massive, opulent, passionate and -- unlike most summer time-wasters -- surprisingly intelligent.

May 20, 2004 Full Review

Rex Reed

New York Observer

Top Critic

... several of the scenes are just some of the best battle scenes I've seen in a long time.

May 17, 2004 Full Review

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

Violent, watered-down version of The Iliad.

December 29, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

While an achievement in visuals, Troy fails in every other aspect including its writing and storytelling.

April 29, 2009 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

Despite its shortcomings, Troy is a visual smorgasbord.

October 18, 2008 Full Review

Urban Cinefile Critics

Urban Cinefile

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.

August 5, 2007 Full Review | Comments (2)

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

It's coherent at least. But only barely. Its special effects are pretty, and it has a cool soundtrack (though it's over-used). But boy is the writing terrible. I mean, terrible.

July 14, 2007 Full Review

Joe Lozito

Big Picture Big Sound

All the cast members, even Mr. Pitt, adopt the obligatory British accent, sans contractions, employed by the historical drama genre, even though the action takes place in Ancient Greece.

May 2, 2007 Full Review

Kam Williams

Princeton Town Topics

Troy condenses Homer's ten-year war into a couple of months.

July 25, 2005 Full Review | Comments (2)

Uri Lessing

www.kcactive.com

The battle of Troy takes the jump from history books to film with little consideration, disregarding the story's historical accuracy and failing to entertain audiences with the kind of flashy battle sequences the summer season demands.

July 5, 2005 Full Review

Jason Zingale

Bullz-Eye.com

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.

April 1, 2005 Full Review

Brian Juergens

Freeze Dried Movies

'A valiant but doomed affair, as carefully constructed -- and ultimately as hollow -- as the Trojan Horse itself.'

March 22, 2005 Full Review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Las Vegas Mercury

It's no classic but Troy does prove to be a damn good film overall.

March 14, 2005 Full Review

Garth Franklin

Dark Horizons

Wooden horse, wooden acting, wouldn't bother if I were you.

March 6, 2005 Full Review

Jonathan Romney

Independent

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.

December 21, 2004 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

Troy is an empty and dispiriting game, a contest of steroid-ingesting brutes who have made themselves gods in their own minds.

December 6, 2004 Full Review

Jeffrey Overstreet

Looking Closer

Emotionally inert sand and sandals extravaganza

November 14, 2004 Full Review

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Feel your jaw drop when first viewing the arrival of the thousand Greek ships, a visual masterpiece.

October 14, 2004 Full Review

Steve Crum

Kansas City Kansan

See for yourself, but, for me, it was much ado about nothing.

October 7, 2004 Full Review

Tony Medley

tonymedley.com

Bruising battles and some stirring performances make Troy enjoyable, if rather long.

October 6, 2004 Full Review

Empire Magazine

• 1. Achilles: Play your tricks on me. But not on my cousin.
  2. Odysseus: You have your swords. I have my tricks. We play with the toys the gods give us.
  – Submitted by Raisul I (2 months ago)
• 1. Agamemnon: Achilles is one man!
  2. Odysseus: Hector is one man! Look what he did to us today!
  3. Agamemnon: I don't care about the man's alliegence, I care about his ability to win battles!
  4. Odysseus: Hector fights for his country! Achilles fights only for himself!
  – Submitted by Raisul I (2 months ago)
• 1. Achilles: We men are wretched things.
  – Submitted by Raisul I (2 months ago)
• 1. Prince Hector of Troy: I've seen this moment in my dreams. I'll make a pact with you. With the gods as our witnesses, let us pledge that the winner will allow the loser all the proper funeral rituals.
  2. Achilles: There are no pacts between lions and men. Now you know who you're fighting.
  3. Prince Hector of Troy: I thought it was you I was fighting yesterday. And I wish it had been, but I gave the dead boy the honor he deserved.
  4. Achilles: You gave him the honor of your sword. You won't have eyes tonight, you won't have ears or a tongue. You will wander the underworld blind, deaf, and dumb, and all the dead will know - this is Hector, the fool who thought he killed Achilles.
  – Submitted by Typhon Q (3 months ago)
• 1. Achilles: You're a far better king than the one leading this army.
  – Submitted by Lucas B (5 months ago)
• 1. Odysseus: Women have a way of complicating things.
  – Submitted by Suraj C (5 months ago)

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