This movie is insulting Istanbul with an unrealistic portrait

Rating: 1/10 (14 October 2012)

As a Turkish citizen, I could't believe the portrait of Istanbul shown on this movie. In fact the daily lifestyles, clothes, business life, shops, restaurants of Istanbul are not too different from a European country or the USA. But this film shows Istanbul like an undeveloped, chaotic Arabic city. The police cars in the movie are from 30 years ago. It is so unrealistic that I waited during the movie when camels will appear on the streets, only they are missing!!! Of course there are slums and living areas for low income people in Istanbul too (like much of the modern cities in the world also Istanbul is a city where 13 million people live in) but this movie shows the whole Istanbul as a 3rd world country with bad intentions. Turkey which you see on this movie is totally a lie. I hope one day everybody in the world gets chance to see our city with their eyes and see how fascinating atmosphere and friendly people it has.