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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
For 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.
The picture's bravura style makes for an intriguingly exotic adventure only occasionally hobbled by the finicky mode of storytelling.
There's never enough detail to make these historical figures come to life in a compelling way.
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.
While fur-clad pillaging sounds fun enough, a Crouching Tiger–style ponderousness hollows out this largely Russian-produced dud.
A gracefully mounted, stunningly photographed historical account, fascinating in its attention to detail if somewhat unengaging in its story and characters.
With its breathtaking landscapes, bloody battles, bitter betrayals and an aching love story, Mongol is a sumptuously crafted epic
Top CriticWhile 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Adventure story, love story, history lesson: What's not to like?
Good battle scenes across a Montana-like plains, impressive acting in the title role by a Japanese performer speaking Mongolian.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it falls flat, a lot of the time it feels like it's four hours long.
The film earns our attention and respect the way fictional movies do: by crafting a well-told, entertaining story.
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.
Japanese indie idol Asano smolders as maverick Temudgin [Khan].
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