Troy

In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. They set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy.

Troy lands as a visually imposing sword-and-sandals spectacle that critics found more hollow than heroic — competent enough as blockbuster entertainment but too smoothed-out and commercially minded to carry the emotional and epic weight of its source material. The director's cut won more admirers than the theatrical version, and a streaming revival years later found new audiences willing to embrace what critics originally dismissed.