Brad is worth the ticket price alone and others turned in creditable performances, particularly Eric Bana as an upright family man who just happens to be the prince of a warlike city-state, and Sean Bean as Odysseus the Ironic.

Violent, watered-down version of The Iliad.

A numbingly reliable tick-tock of expository set pieces alternating with vast CGI-aided battle scenes.

Pitt seems to be playing Achilles as if he were living in 2004 (the film’s release year) but he’s still fun to watch. The only actor who does his damndest to take things seriously is the extraordinary O’Toole as Priam...