Neither Homeric nor Homoerotic

[chicken]

Patrocles and Achilles: the well-known love. Not really there.

Deviations from Homer's plot: many. E.g.:

The Gods are excised. Aphrodite's assitance to Paris removed and replaced with his brother's help. Ares' watching over Achilles, gone. Menelaus dying, added. Etc.

Still, within the movie's own story, the actors were pretty good, the stuntmen amazing, and the CGI was fine (but certainly nothing new, esp. as The Lord of the Rings already went there and more).

Also, the battles scenes were drawn out too long, and the overuse of that same singing voice/musical theme (that we've heard in a million movies, most recently in Rings) were both fairly annoying.

The costumes were nice and looked as if some small amount of actual research and craftmanship had gone into them.

Sean Bean rules, he never over-acted, and outshined most of the others in the quiet, intense emotional depth area. (Let's see them make the sequel, as it were. All Odysseus, all the time. Eh? Or, Aeneas even.) Peter O'Toole was just amazing, too.

Anyone who is an afficionado of naked Brad Pitt was probably happy (but for me: whatever).