Troy The Odyssey is a 2017 movie from The Asylum, and is very loosely based on the story of Odysseus (and I do mean very loosely).
The Greek Myth of Odysseus is already a very well-known story, so I prefer not to go into a synopsis for this review, but while I should point out the differences between this movie and the original legend, I also feel there would be no point in doing that too much as I’ll just come out and say right now that for this review that Troy The Odyssey is a terrible movie.
Before I go on, I want to quickly clarify that my reasons for hating this film have NOTHING to do with the fact that there are a lot of changes made as Greek Mythology itself has been re-written numerous times in the long past. My real problems with Troy The Odyssey is that the overall movie is a poorly made mess from start to finish, and I truly regret having seen it even to just make this review.
Now I understand that The Asylum is a very small company so I’m aware that to some extent that I shouldn’t be so harsh towards one of their movies since it was made with a low budget, and I’m sure everyone making this movie had their hearts in the right place (so I mean no ill towards any of them at all), but since I want to review Troy The Odyssey as just a movie, I am allowed to express my own opinions when reviewing movies.
When I reviewed the 1997 movie; Hercules from Walt Disney Pictures, I did point out that I still found that movie to be very good despite a lot of the changes made to it that differ from the original Greek Myths about Hercules. To go into more detail as to why that is, it is because at least that movie was still enjoyable in my opinion despite being made for a family audience (thus explaining the changes). While Troy The Odyssey is a completely different film from that one, I will still admit that Disney’s Hercules is more respectable to Greek Mythology.
While it is a very ambitious concept to adapt the whole story of Odysseus’s many years of trying to get back to his family after the Trojan War ended, the way this movie handled it was not executed very well as while watching the film, I didn’t feel years had passed between Odysseus’s many adventures.
More aspects about Troy The Odyssey that make it a bad movie are the poor acting, and terrible special effects. Now again, I’m aware this movie is low budget, but even then, that to some extent shouldn’t excuse those negatives.
While I should go on more about Troy The Odyssey, I prefer to end this review by saying that unless you like really bad movies, I recommend staying away from Troy The Odyssey as it isn’t even so bad that its good (and I do like some films that fall into that category, so that’s saying something).
I give Troy The Odyssey 1/5 Stars, and Two Thumbs Down.
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