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The Vienese singer - Romaine - as she does her act sitting on a crescent moon and very romantically singing and enchanting the aging solicitor - Oh, ! - this is almost a copy (not a "reference") for that famed anthological movie "Das Blaue Angel". I found this BBC new version of Witness For The Prosecution really hard to watch, especially due to the coughing of the main character. Was it Corona Virus, or tuberculosis ? So much smoke and bacteria spread everywhere he went... It looked like a movie about the pandemic of 2020. In the end we learn that what he had was just "bronchitis". I guess antibiotics had not been discovered yet. What a torture of a movie!

I just don't know how Emma Watson got this part. She happens to be the most unexpressive actress of all times. A true phenomenon in blankness. In this movie - which, by the way , has a ridiculous plot that mixes today's reality with conspiratory/persecutory theories - Miss Watson displays a face that says "I couldn't care less about all this". The audience gets infuriated at her, not at the macchiavellian intents of Tom Hank's character (whose name I do not recall). Bad acting everywhere, silly story...But above all Emma Watson proves she is truly a horrible actress. An incurable case. She was bad in The Bling Ring, too. Has she ever heard of one thing called "showing an emotion" ?

I just couldn't believe what I was watching in Netflix. This series is so wrong, so outrageously disrespectful to Homer's immortal Illiad that I had to write this review. The directors-writers-producers-whatever and whoever they were (-like a gang-) seem to have deliberately chosen to disfigure the masterpiece - perhaps the highest work of literature ever created. A cultural murder was, apparently, perpetrated in this "Troy-The Fall of a City". Just about every actor is miscast, starting with Paris/Alexander himself who does not look any bit "in love " with Helen at all! As he prepares to go back to Troy I got a feeling that Helen hid herself in that coffin out of boredom, not really for love - neither she, nor he seems to have been taken by the turmoil of an intense passion. Paris is such a modern boy ! Does he like soccer? Videogames? And Helen, though quite pretty, could not possibly be "...the most beautiful woman of the world" promised by Aphrodite. Ah!... Aphrodite promised. But didn't deliver... A certain discomfort invades the viewer from the start as he is confronted with so much bad acting, bad casting, bad timing in the events. Sorry to say that - but it MUST be said - Achilles SHOULD be someone hairy and blond - like a lion, as Homer explicitly wrote in his story. Achilles was "golden" like a lion! Nestor, an important character in the Illiad looks just like a street dweller that I see everyday somewhere in Rio de Janeiro where I live. Why this ? BBC managed to offend Homer, the Greeks, and all of humanity who read this immortal tale of war and love. AS some reviewers already noted, this awful TV series made the movie "Troy" (which contains many mistakes) with Brad Pitt, Eric Bana and lovely Diane Kruger shine like a jewel forever!!!!