Transports us to the faraway past and an exotic place where a legendary warrior is forged into a fierce leader through suffering and hardship.
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06/05/08
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
Mongol is a big, ponderous epic, its beautifully composed landscape shots punctuated by thundering hooves and bloody, slow-motion battle sequences.
06/05/08
Top CriticFor a motion picture about man who changed the world on his own terms, one would think his life story would be a riveting experience, not something that requires a pot of coffee and occasional magazine breaks to enjoy.
06/05/08
The picture's bravura style makes for an intriguingly exotic adventure only occasionally hobbled by the finicky mode of storytelling.
06/05/08
There's never enough detail to make these historical figures come to life in a compelling way.
06/05/08
With overwhelmingly beautiful cinematography on location, this is as good as any thriller and also a sweet love story...the best of film, one that entertains and educates.
06/05/08
While fur-clad pillaging sounds fun enough, a Crouching Tiger–style ponderousness hollows out this largely Russian-produced dud.
06/05/08
While his film's historical accuracy might sometimes be questionable, Bodrov has created a spectacular film filled with all-natural beauty from the realistic locations, one that brings forth the man within the fabled barbarian
06/04/08
For anyone even slightly interested in Mongolian history or in the life of the man who would conquer a fifth of the Earth's landmass, "Mongol" is a movie that demands repeated screenings.
06/02/08
shows a merging of the random vagaries of time with the divine machinery of myth, to create a truly rounded picture of the factors that can turn a flesh-and-blood individual into a living legend on the very crest of history.
06/02/08
Bodrov whips up enough wild, unruly energy and, in his depiction of sex as a Mongolian female's most vital commodity, sociological scraps to help overshadow the somewhat cheesy dubiousness of his myth-making project.
06/01/08
More impressed with its own olden days ready-to-rumble, flesh-ripping Far Eastern beatdowns, than fleshing out with any depth just who these characters were and how they struggled to exist back then. History as a scenic but dramatically sparse travelogue.
05/26/08
Adventure story, love story, history lesson: What's not to like?
05/14/08
Good battle scenes across a Montana-like plains, impressive acting in the title role by a Japanese performer speaking Mongolian.
05/08/08
Sometimes it works, sometimes it falls flat, a lot of the time it feels like it's four hours long.
04/01/08
The film earns our attention and respect the way fictional movies do: by crafting a well-told, entertaining story.
03/31/08
Arguably Bodrov's biggest, most accomplished film, Mongol is everything that Oliver Stone's Alexander was not: sumputuously mounted, beautifully acted, and illuminating in historical yet accessible terms the tumultuous life of the legendary warrior.
11/15/07
Japanese indie idol Asano smolders as maverick Temudgin [Khan].
09/19/07
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