Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

whitej-74393 The Odyssey made me see my kids again after my wife got full custody. I loved the smiles my kids had when they saw the cyclops eat the man alive, it put a warm feeling in my heart. Almost better than A Talking Cat!?©2013

mkim0423 I had recently bought a new feathered friend. Because I really liked the epic poem that Homer wrote, I decided to even name my new bird after a character he wrote about, Odysseus. In honor of my bird's birthday, we (Cookie, Odysseus, and I) snuggled into my bed and put the movie on. At first there was WAY too much violence. Cookie had nightmares for weeks. Then, during the scene with the cyclops. Odysseus threw up all over my new fuzzy pants. The movie dragged on for way too long and the pacing was awful. My feathered friends were way too tired by the end of it, it has caused a huge change in their attitudes the next day. Overall, I highly recommend that birds not watch it. Thanks for your time.

Petri Pelkonen King Odyssey angers Poseidon after the Trojan war and is cursed to wander the Earth.He faces many challenges along the way.The story is based on Ancient Greek poem by Homer.I read it some years ago, and it works great even in our days.This miniseries (1997), which I borrowed as a VHS, is a very good adaptation.Its director is Andrey Konchalovskiy.Francis Ford Coppola is one of its producers.Armand Assante really nails the main part.Greta Scacchi is brilliant as his wife Penelope.Isabella Rossellini is divine as Athena.Same thing with Bernadette Peters, who plays Circe.Eric Roberts is great as Eurymachus.Irene Papas is amazing as Odyssey' mother Anticlea.Geraldine Chaplin is marvelous as Euryclea.Christopher Lee is terrific as Tiresias.Vanessa L. Williams is very good as Calypso.Very good work by Michael J. Pollard, who plays Aeolus.Alan Stenson's work as Odyssey' son Telemachus is also very good.This looks quite amazing from time to time, like when those men face the cyclops Polyphemus.And his return back home, as a beggar, is really something.Those men have to fear for Odyssey' wrath.

funkyfry I was surprised the first time I saw this how much fun it was as an adventure film, and just picked it up again after about a decade's rest. It won't do any good to pretend this is anything other than Homer's "Odyssey" as condensed to emphasize action and romance. It also would be rather pointless to act like these are some of the great performances in film, or even in fantasy film. Still, the whole thing does work mostly because of the excellent location photography and Armand Assante's charismatic performance.Quite a few of the other performances suffer for whatever reason, sometimes due to bad casting. Bernadette Peters is a good actress I guess, but just totally wrong for the part of Circe. She came off like the trailer park version of Circe. Isabella Rosselini, she was just horrible in this movie. Never was her awkward way of speaking English more obtrusive, and the odd sense of humor that she seems to want to bring to Athena is out of place. However Christopher Lee has a fun scene as the blind prophet Tiresias, who Odysseus must go to the land of the dead to meet. And Michael J. Pollard, always a fine actor and very amusing, is good as the god of wind. Some of the blame is surely with the director, since Peters for example is not as good as Vanessa Williams in a similar role, and I'm pretty sure in general she's a much better actress.This is a good film to introduce kids to the story of the Odyssey. It doesn't go into some of the ideas of the book, which is sort of an exploration of the ethics of hospitality and the moral value of truth (as well as of course the moral value of lies). Special effects are well done, and the conflict with Troy is covered in a suitable way. Assante carries the whole film with his performance. He's good at conveying the pride and then the pain of Odysseus.