This movie is a special-effects extravaganza with high-tech effects and a solid cast to back up the adventure by way of intelligent direction and good dialogue. The bulk of the film follows Ulysses on what amounts to a shipborne Cook's tour of fictionally-reworked famous ancient places about the Mediterraean, to confrontations with the man-eating Cyclops and his herd of sheep, with Circe the goddess who can transform men into swine, with the Lotos eaters and the Gulf of the world. By night, Penelope unweaves what she has woven of her wedding dress during daylight. They demand Penelope marry one of them, since they believe Ulysses is dead. But meanwhile, even as his son grows, the kingdom's nobles grow bolder. His wife Penelope waits for him his family never gives up. The thrust of the piece is the wanderings undertaken by Ulysses AFTER he returns home safely from that war. The filmmakers do not spend more than a few minutes on the "Odysseys" background, the war by the ancient Argives' alliance against the city of Ilium or "Troy". The greatness of this adaptation is that the ethical central character, Odysseus or 'Ulysses', King of Ithaca, is treated as the first man in history able to think rationally-to control his passions. "The Odyssey", purportedly the work of the same man who wrote "The Iliad", is a long epic poem which is world-renowned as a tale of adventure.
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