Leofwine_draca THE LAST GLORY OF TROY - aka WAR OF THE Trojans, aka THE AVENGER - is the sequel to THE WOODEN HORSE OF TROY, a film that portrayed the Trojan War and also starred Steve Reeves as the eponymous hero Aeneas. This time around, the Trojans are a defeated people, having fled from their sacked city, but a mixture of courage and cunning sees them go on to found what is modern-day Rome.Unfortunately THE LAST GLORY OF TROY is a somewhat lacklustre sequel that more often than not is a rather BORING peplum flick. It has relatively lengthy running time, and much of that running time is made up of small talk between dull characters. Even Steve Reeves doesn't have much of a part to play here, feeling like a supporting character in his own movie, although the cast is populated with familiar faces including Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Liana Orfei and Gianni Garko.The film does pick up for its second half, offering a handful of battle sequences, although the choreography isn't particularly great in these. But it lacks the tight script and focus of the first film and with six different scriptwriters credited it feels like a bit of a confused mess, struggling to make sense of itself.

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- 1962, A young wandering Aeneas finds Italy after the Trojan war. He helps the country with his best abilities.*Special Stars- Steve Reeves, Carla Marlier *Theme- Inside a bodybuilder, there's a political leader trying to get out.*Trivia/location/goofs- Italian film. Dubbed in English. Mr. Reeves (an award winning international bodybuilder) becomes the icon for this type of legendary hero role and later helps Arnold Swartzenegger to take over Mr. Reeves cloak of strongman stardom. Horses' saddle stirrups and cornfields are not of this early Roman period.*Emotion- A boring and too long 'sword and sandal' film. I tend too like these epics. But, even Mr. Reeves appearance can't help the simplistic and one dimensional plot and script action.

bear407 I discovered the sword and sandal films of Steve Reeves about 12 years ago, and this is easily the most wooden and boring one of all. Most of Reeves' muscleman acting efforts are compelling enough and have a couple of good supporting actresses and veteran Italian actors. The VHS tape I have was of poor film quality, I believe it was even B&W. This one fails to keep your attention either on Reeves himself or a decent storyline. Better efforts are obviously Hercules, Giant of Marathon, Duel of Titans (massive hero role), Morgan the Pirate, and Thief of Baghdad (good costume roles w/solid story lines). This one will put you to sleep - it was a rushed afterthought of this genre.

dbborroughs Did Steve Reeves make any decent movies outside of the first two Hercules films?This is a sequel to the Trojan Horse.Trojans, fleeing from the remains of Troy end up in Italy and get mixed up with the Etruscans. The Trojans want a place to stay, but... The king is cool with it,the prince is not. A princess loves Reeves, but ends up involved with the prince... The prince sets up the Trojans and after 40 to 45 minutes of court intrigue a war breaks out, but its dull. Ultimately it comes down to Reeves and the prince fighting in silly helmets, which isn't revealing anything since its supposedly history and its in the trailer.I paid for this on video tape for what reason? Don't make my mistake, avoid this film.