Turkish Propaganda piece.... ergh..

Rating: 4/10 (18 September 2015)

The movies is built on a premise that a great siege is taking place, but what's not mentioned is that basically, most of the people have long left Constantinople, or died from the plague, and there are only 7000 soldiers left.
That is up against a huge army of 100,000 Ottomans, the huge Ottoman fleet, and even European siege technicians who had taken the Sultans gold to work for him.
If anything, the heroes of the movie should be the Greek Byzantines and the people who came to help them, who held out for 2 months against an army more than 10 times their own size, for two months.
Some nice battle scenes, and it is well shot, but the drama element is unfortunately just propaganda presumably made for the Turkish public and I don't think does a lot for Turkish relations with other countries.
Hopefully one day someone will make a decent movie about the fall of Constantinople - an historic event worthy of it. But this ain't it.