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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:Jun 6, 2008 Limited
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
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Reviews for Mongol
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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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Genghis Khan's lost decade fuels a handsome fantasy. 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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3/4 |
The melodrama is as thick as the blood in the spectacular battle sequences, but Asano's soulful performance brings this little-understood historical icon passionately to life. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Probably the only movie you'll ever see that opens in '1192 -- Year of the Black Rat.' Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
...an action movie that, for a change, comes from the history books, not the comic books. Full Review |
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3/4 |
There is plenty of violence. But anyone expecting the wrath of Kahn will have to wait for the sequel. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Even though the results might not be as stunning as Kurosawa's epics, the film certainly has its highlights, especially the often-bloody battle scenes. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Mongol, from its thrilling battles to its intimate romance, has the look, scale, story and feel of an old-fashioned epic in the best and biggest sense of the word. Full Review |
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