Steve Reeves was never a good actor, at best he makes a naïve impression, but usually, like in all his later films, he was just a completely expressionless muscular dummy. In comparison with Robert Wise's "Helen of Troy" a few years earlier, this is like a miniature gipsum copy of a magnificent marble statue. It tries to be monumental, though, and there is some stylishness over the set-up, but the acting is stilted, and even the best actors, like Ulysses, (John Drew Barrymore), are merely types. The best actors are the women, especially Cassandra och Creussa.
There is a lot of fighting outside Troy before the horse is taken in, which never was mentioned by Homer, and here Diomedes is actually killed by Aeneas (Steve Reeves), who is the hero of this film. Creussa dies in childbirth, and Paris is pathetic, more so than in Homer. Ajax has an important part, he has many fights and some of them quite spectacular. Ulysses is very controversial in sly insidiousness.
The action starts where Homer's Iliad ends, with the desecration of Hector's body and moves up to the fall of Troy with mammoth scenes impressive enough of the apocalyptic destruction of the city, so it's not a disappointing film, although rather stale and stereotypical, like so many Peplum fims.
There is a lot of fighting outside Troy before the horse is taken in, which never was mentioned by Homer, and here Diomedes is actually killed by Aeneas (Steve Reeves), who is the hero of this film. Creussa dies in childbirth, and Paris is pathetic, more so than in Homer. Ajax has an important part, he has many fights and some of them quite spectacular. Ulysses is very controversial in sly insidiousness.
The action starts where Homer's Iliad ends, with the desecration of Hector's body and moves up to the fall of Troy with mammoth scenes impressive enough of the apocalyptic destruction of the city, so it's not a disappointing film, although rather stale and stereotypical, like so many Peplum fims.