Poor

Rating: 2/10 (2 May 2020)

When the story line refers to historical events in an inaccurately dramatised way then the audience of the movie, particularly the younger ones, see it as actual history. This movie unfortunately falls neatly in this category. The Gallipoli campaign was a terrible tragedy. The attempt by the Allies to seize the Gallipoli peninsula from the Ottoman turks and gain control over the strategically important Dardanelles failed in a welter of hubris, blood and suffering. A terrible, solemn, tragedy, indeed. The battle of Gallipoli did actually happen as did the alliance of Turkey with Germany in WWW1. The movie also touched on some unhistorical skirmishes with Greek militia presented like pirates of the Caribbean, but it did not, conveniently, touch on the Armenian genocide in progress by the turks during and after WWW1, and certainly in the days during and after Gallipoli. It is rather perplexing as to why Russell Crow, an accomplished actor, participated in this movie, in a role that seemed to have kept him below average.