Cheap Nationalistic Propaganda

Rating: 1/10 (3 April 2013)

The movie is the best way to waste 2 hours of your life. It is absolutely historically inaccurate. Turks (Muslims) are romantic heroes who fights for freedom and justice and on the other side the defenders (Christians) are ugly, evil cowards who deserves to be slaughtered. Pathetic Turkish propaganda!
Costumes, buildings, weapons, fashion... everything is messed up and wrong. Palace of the Byzantine emperor looks more like an antique Roman or Hellenic villa than a late medieval palace. There are even naked, classic Greek sculptures in the palace. Frescoes painted on the walls are also totally wrong.
There is a scene of a boar hunting... I mean, the sultan was a Muslim, I'm sure he wouldn't chase a boar through a forest.
Almost each scene of the movie is wrong. I'm very disappointed.