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Sienna Gullory plays Helen as a pouting supermodel with a face that may launch a thousand surfboards at best, but Rufus Sewell ('Dangerous Beauty') makes a wickedly dashing Agamemnon and veteran John Rhys-Davies ('Raiders of the Lost Ark', 'The Lord of the Rings') is perfect as doomed King Pryam. Hecuba (Maryam D'Abo) looks great for a mother of fifty sons and twelve daughters! The rest of the cast I can't tell who they are or where I've seen them (Theseus was the KGB villain in 'Ronin' and Menelaus, the bumbling husband in 'Tracy Takes On'), but they all play their parts splendidly, particularly Cassandra and Clytemnestra...
First the negatives...Achilles is terrible as a bald headed he-man, Hector comes accross as a wimp, Menelaus is way too docile as the king of the warrior Spartans and is constantly abused by Agammemnon, Helen is not strikingly beautiful, Agammemnon seems too young, Odysseus has a tiny role and there is no Ajax.
As for the positives...there is extensive character development that explains the relationships between the characters, i.e. Helen was the sister of Agammemnon's wife. The scene when Agammemnon crosses the line and makes the choice to kill his own daughter is powerful. They stick to the original story line for a significant portion of the movie.
Overall, it's a great movie. Well worth spending an evening, or a weekend if you combine it with the made for TV movie The Odyssey with Armand Assante. One minor point...although made for TV, Helen seems to have an affinity for tissue paper clothing.
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