Eisenstein or Mel Brooks ??? A little of both !

Rating: 4/10 (21 August 2012)

Is this movie very interesting ? Can't say. To like or hate a movie is a subjective appreciation. At first place, you could expect this movie to give an idea of one of the most important historical event (causing the end of the middle-age in Europe). However, don't expect too much. It has no historical / political quality at all. Furthermore, the movie's quality is quite low (for a 17M budget). According to me, it corresponds more to a TV movie. Still, it is a movie you can see on a rainy Sunday on Internet (don't worth 10 for a ticket though).
Keep looking until the end (or fast-forward), the scene where the hero swaps the flags (the ottoman one with the two-heads eagle of Constantinople) worths a lot - it has Mel Brooks touch !
The last but not the least, don't judge the movie on its IMDb quotation. Such a note for this movie smells "propaganda"...