Truly pathetic.

Rating: 3/10 (25 September 2012)

when you find out that a movie has an IMDb rating of 8.3 with over 30000 votes, you become curious about the movie. you approach it with a certain set of expectations. and when the concerned flick is a historic opus about the conquest of Constantinople then you believe you are in for the time of your life. Sadly you are gravely mistaken. The movie felt like a superposition of one movie over another. there are few scenes in which the Turkish king is preparing his troops and making all the right moves to capture the enemy territory. however, this is not the central theme which surprisingly is the romance between the king's best friend and the daughter of the chief cannon designer. the romantic track is completely unnecessary and bogs down the already sluggish pace of the movie. what further kills the movie is the amateurish editing. some people ar just walking to nowhere throughout the movie which is plain funny. the initial special effects are cartoonish. the battle scenes are good. the turks are shown to be noble which is to be expected considering that this is a Turkish movie. but still the clichéd portrayal of the enemy doesn't sit well with a movie which has such grand intentions. the acting is laughable. the Sultan keeps on glaring at the camera to convey his "intensity", i believe. his friend who at least gets to kiss the girl is one step ahead in woodenness. rest of the characters are so easily erasable that it is only 5 minutes since i stopped watching the movie (30 minutes were still left but i had had enough) i have forgotten all of them. this is as pathetic as they come. 1.5 out of 5 for this. these 125 minutes of my life i can never get back and for that i will never forgive Faruk Aksoy, the director of this disaster.