Not that great...
Maybe I'm crazy, but I didn't think this was a masterpiece at all. The main characters were pretty 1-dimensional (i didnt care about them very much), the story was so-so, some of the scenes felt sloppy and poorly-edited, and to top it off, there was hardly any dialogue at all.
I know how this film/its director is regarded and I am not trying to stir up an argument here, but I just didnt see what the the rest of you seem to have experienced when viewing the film.
Achilles absent was Achilles still.
-Homer