Cardboard caricatures or a cultural cringe?

Rating: 5/10 (18 June 2015)

Am sitting watching this on tele at the moment and already have that "what the heck feeling". We have the awful greedy priest (after the criticism the totally non-Biblical Noah received maybe Rusty wanted to take a swipe at those awful Christians who dared to say it was a load of tosh), the ultra nice Turks ( who just happened to try and wipe out the Armenian Christians around the time of ww1 and still deny it to this day), the pompous unpleasant Brits (sorry but that was way over the top) and the intuitive way he just "knows" about his sons. Sorry i really wanted to like this and there is a lot to like in the scenery, acting etc but its neither believable or palatable. In fact I agree with the other reviewer who felt the movie must have been funded by the Turksh govt! Nice idea of a father searching for his sons though. My challenge to Russel Crowe is to now tackle a movie about the Armenian genocide, that story needs telling.