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Avg. Critic Score: 56 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
15 Iffy for 15+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 75
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Troy lacks the focus of Gladiator, not to mention that Oscar winner's scrappy wit. But why kick a gift horse when you're in summer-movie heaven? Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    All Hollywood and no Homer, but within its limits, it's a vigorous, entertaining movie. Read full review

  • 75
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Entertainingly epic eye candy. Read full review

  • 70
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    Far from great, but much farther from awful, Troy offers several popcorn buckets' worth of good old-fashioned time at the movies. Read full review

  • 60
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    For what it is -- a big, expensive, occasionally campy action movie full of well-known actors speaking in well-rounded accents -- Troy is not bad. It has the blocky, earnest integrity of a classic comic book, and it labors to respect the strangeness and grandeur of its classical sources. Read full review

  • 60
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    Despite a sensationally attractive cast and an array of well-staged combat scenes presented on a vast scale, Wolfgang Petersen's highly telescoped rendition of the Trojan War lurches ahead in fits and starts for much of its hefty running time, to OK effect. Read full review

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    A protracted and uninvolving affair in which men battle over issues that audiences may struggle to find compelling, and no central figure emerges to take command of the film. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    Given everything, it's no surprise that the verdict on the film has to be a split decision. Troy is a movie you believe in physically...Believing in Troy emotionally, however, presents a greater challenge. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The movie sidesteps the existence of the Greek gods, turns its heroes into action movie cliches and demonstrates that we're getting tired of computer-generated armies. Read full review

  • 50
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    The result is a pageant long but not deep, noisy but not stirring, expensive but not sumptuous. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 15+ Violent, watered-down version of The Iliad.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know the movie has almost-constant battle violence with graphic and brutal injuries. The weapons include knives, swords, spears, arrows, and fire. Many characters are killed. The movie also has sexual references and situations and brief nudity. A virgin priestess is made available to the soldiers for rape as part of the spoils of war, but this is unacceptable to one of the warriors.
  • Families can talk about how this story has continued to be vital and meaningful for generations throughout the centuries. Which elements of the story are relevant to contemporary conflicts? The treatment of prisoners? The role of advisors?
  • Achilles was given the choice between a happy life and eternal fame. Why did he decide in favor of glory? What did he mean by saying that the gods envy us because we are mortal?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: The movie, which is based on The Illiad, should be about love, honor, betrayal, fate, ambition, and of course, hubris, but it is really more about fighting.
  • rolemodels true0 Positive role models: Not a lot of positive role models.
What to watch for
  • violence false4 Violence: Extreme, intense, and graphic battle violence with swords, knives, spears, and fire; many characters brutally killed.
  • sex false3 Sex: Sexual references and situations including threesome, reference to rape, nudity.
  • language false0 Language: Not an issue
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false2 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Characters drink wine.
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