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.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Jun 19, 2008 Wide
US Box Office: $5,621,596
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
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Genghis Khan's lost decade fuels a handsome fantasy. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
Temudgin is so single-minded that Asano has trouble suggesting much about his inner life. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
Even the most intense human drama is somehow reduced by the landscape. Full Review |
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3/5 |
The visuals and performances make it worth it, but this is a wilfully oblique bit of warrior hagiography. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Russian director Sergei Bodrov has made a magnificent epic which evokes some of the greats of the past, including Lawrence of Arabia. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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'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. Full Review |
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3.0/5 |
A movie in which acting still prevails is Mongol. People often say, 'They don't make movies like they used to.' Maybe the Russians make movies like Hollywood used to. Mongol, photographed beautifully in Kazakhstan and the Chinese province of Full Review |
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 2.5/4 |
This would have been one of the greatest all time epics, but there were some major gaps in the story. Full Review |
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6/10 |
...probably not the movie most audiences expected. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Visually stunning, historically interesting, and very entertaining. Full Review |
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B- |
It's a lumbering, emotionally cold, slow-going old-fashioned escapist sweeping biopic on the early years of Genghis Khan. Full Review |
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When we think of the fearsome Genghis Khan, we don't picture him as ever having been a little boy. But he must have been, and that is where this grand throwback to the sweeping historical epics of yesteryear takes up the Great Khan's story. Full Review |
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3/4 |
... Bodrov's engaging vision of Genghis Khan in several moments almost feels like the silent movie epics by the Russian cinematic pioneer Sergei Eisenstein. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Hell has no wrath like a Khan scorned. Full Review |
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7/10 |
A saga of blood feuds, betrayals, vendettas, and a lot of fighting The film is entertaining but more macho than intelligent. Full Review |
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1.5/5 |
It must have been a pretty weak year for subtitled fare if the Oscar voters sought to praise this inert, inept epic. Full Review |
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Mongol has just enough characterization to sustain its own reason for being -- cinematic fullness. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
A thoroughly rousing hunk of celluloid, a war saga that blends the sturdiest conventions of old-fashioned heroic storytelling with a few pixilated battle enhancements — check out the soaring blood globs — of the kind that spattered across 300. Full Review |
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3/4 |
The battle sequences are tremendous, and the performances are captivating, making for the sort of rousing, giant-scale entertainment that a figure as towering as Genghis Khan deserves. Full Review |
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October 22, 2008:
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