Temudgin is so single-minded that Asano has trouble suggesting much about his inner life.
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06/20/08
Mongol (2008)
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Reviews Counted:98
Fresh:85
Rotten:13
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: The sweeping Mongol mixes romance, family drama, and enough flesh-ripping battle scenes to make sense of Ghenghis Khan's legendary stature.
Theatrical Release:06-06-2008
Synopsis: Award-winning Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov (Prisoner of the Mountains) illuminates the life and legend of Genghis Khan in his stunning historical epic, Mongol. Based on leading scholarly... [More]
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Honglei Sun, Khulan Chuluun, Odnyam Odsuren
Director: Sergei Bodrov
Reviews for Mongol
Even the most intense human drama is somehow reduced by the landscape.
06/20/08
The visuals and performances make it worth it, but this is a wilfully oblique bit of warrior hagiography.
06/20/08
Mongol is a little slow at times, but you do a get a good history lesson while you get to see blood spraying and bodies flying all over the place.
06/19/08
History's greatest subjugator finally gets the respect he deserves with a no-nonsense drama and an all-Asian cast, shot in the very lands he once ravaged.
06/19/08
Mongol is the first film of a proposed trilogy that charts his conquest of half the known world. If the sequels match this one, they can't come soon enough.
06/19/08
The result is a wallow in old movie pleasures, full of battles, flying dust, thousands of men on horseback, beautiful women, treachery, slaughter, really cool hats and even more slaughter.
06/19/08
Mongol offers an absorbing study of how powerful men with an abiding mutual respect, even love, go about the culturally dictated process of destroying each other.
06/19/08
The first part of what director Bodrov promises to be a trilogy tracing the life of the historic conqueror, Mongol is great cinema, great fun.
06/19/08
A grandly kitschy rendering of Genghis Khan's early years, the ones revealing how a boy became a ruthless yet humane warrior, devoted family man and all-around good fellow, Mongol might as well be called Braveheart in a Yurt.
06/19/08
The film, a foreign-language Oscar nominee, is epic in scope, in scale, in story, in everything. It has as much action as any brain-dead Hollywood blockbuster, but Mongol also has heart and intelligence.
06/19/08
If reading subtitles or trying to understand historical figures aren't among your lifelong ambitions, "Mongol" features some first-rate eye candy.
06/17/08
A thrilling and painstakingly researched story combined with the best costumes imaginable and superb performances makes this a biopic to see.
06/17/08
While the historical accuracy may be dodgy, Mongol is a sweeping and quasi-mythical epic that recalls Lawrence of Arabia.
06/13/08
Russian director Sergei Bodrov has made a magnificent epic which evokes some of the greats of the past, including Lawrence of Arabia.
06/13/08
You might wonder how Bodrov could fail to make every minute of Genghis Khan's extraordinary life near edge-of-the-seat involving, but there are some dull stretches before the pace picks up again.
06/13/08
'Vast landscapes, savage battles, sparring blood brothers and a poignant love story form the essence of Sergei Bodrov's spectacular epic, among whose achievements are its extraordinary sense of place and time.
06/12/08
Relates the story of Genghis Khan's early years in a plodding, uninspired fashion that doesn't bode well for the next two entries in a planned trilogy.
06/10/08
Top CriticFirst-rate "revisionist" study of great conqueror reviled by the "civilized" West. By comparison, most world's leaders are the true barbarians, especially those in Washington, DC.
06/08/08
The audacity of filming the life of a warm & fuzzy Genghis Khan is matched by Sergei Bodrov's superior production and excellent cast, making Mongol's provocation worth the leap and bloody good entertainment, besides
06/06/08
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