Review of Helen of Troy

I'm a big fan of mythology films even if I end up taking them apart by the end, but this movie probably has the least consistency errors in it than any other myth movie out there. The actress playing Helen is perfect with a lot of the beauty I expected while without being buried under make-up. I might have recast Achilles though and Odysseus for that matter. What ? No effort to get Armand Assante back as Odysseus to link his movie to this ? The film is obviously being told through the eyes of Menelaus while trying to keep as much of the original fantasy aspect out as possible. What the movie has is actually a expanded version of the original story taken to its most logical scenarios, but with a few liberties to the legend. Neither Pollux or Theseus actually killed each other. A bit of character goes into Paris this time to make him more worthy and deserving of Helen's hand. Helen is established as a woman looking for love than the idea she was the unworthy victim of a war created out of her fault. This is definitely told as a love story and the moving script keeps it interesting instead of bogging down on details. Ten stars for this movie !