Poor Turkish epic

Rating: 3/10 (9 November 2019)

BATTLE OF EMPIRES is a rather poor Turkish historical epic about the conquest of Constantinople in 1453. It's a lengthy but rather poorly-told kind of movie that just doesn't have the finesse or money behind it that similarly-styled and themed rivals from both Hollywood and China do. The Turks are of course displayed as the impeccable heroes, battling evil and tyranny all around, but the massed battle sequences are animated by below-par CGI which makes this look like one of those cheesy documentary re-stagings you see on television now and then. I can't comment on the acting, because I unfortunately watched a dubbed version which took away any of that interest.