They could make a great story from Iliad but they messed it all up. The cast was great. It was one of the first Hollywood movies I ever watched and I had no prior idea about the actors. After the movie, Eric Bana, Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom, and Brian Cox became my favorite actors though I didn't know any of their names then. Everything was set for it to become a great movie but the story had so many loopholes that even a child couldn't be convinced. I don't understand what the writers of the movie did. The concepts were already developed in Iliad, all they need to do was to make it believable and they miserably failed in that. If not for the actors' performance, it would be a disaster. I think Hollywood should make another movie to do justice to Iliad.