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The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

After reading the Odysessy, I decided to watch this painfully 90's two episode series out of curiosity. Some parts of the film are partway decent, with a few talented actors and interesting scenes here and there. Unfortunately, the majority of the acting was sub-par and many scenes were written so poorly it was utterly laughable. I guess if you must watch a film adaptation of the odessey for a class or whatever it'll do, but I wouldn't watch it otherwise.

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.

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.

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.