It is a well known fact that the Ottomans invented C4...
I just watched the movie. The brigade known as deliler were well known fighters that played roles in the conquest if Istanbul(Constantinople if you're picky) and Ottoman-Persian wars. Although they most likely did not wear wings on their backs but feathers on their helmets and shields, guess Hussars seemmed more visually attractive so the director put wings on the leader but history is not just bent a little bit in this movie to fit to a well sketched out plot but put warped into something unrecognizable... Turks using C4s to blow up a cave, blowing haystacks, and Vlad creating a bio weapon... Bending history is something but using remote controlled explosives in 15th century is a travestite...
The problem with Turkish cinema especially concerning the movies with heroic themes is that the directors can never tell a thousand stories with visuals but rely on pointless motivational talks that screw up the pacing and there's plenty of it here. Pointlessly talking men trying to pump up each other, pointlessly screaming men with no purpose,the movie is a potpourri of all that.
And the last battle scene, you watch a few men running into an army is not something we haven't seen before. Men achieving the impossible in a battlefield is a cornerstone for these kind of movies but haystacks blowing up in the fore and backgrounds? Seriously? If the director could come with only that solution to create the battle atmosphere for a 15TH CENTURY MOVIE that is a disappointment in the lightest way of saying it.
It seems to be movie that takes itself serious and tries to boost Neo-Ottoman ism and Turkish nationalism but it is something not to be taken serious by the viewer otherwise it is a disappointment and a waste of time...
I just watched the movie. The brigade known as deliler were well known fighters that played roles in the conquest if Istanbul(Constantinople if you're picky) and Ottoman-Persian wars. Although they most likely did not wear wings on their backs but feathers on their helmets and shields, guess Hussars seemmed more visually attractive so the director put wings on the leader but history is not just bent a little bit in this movie to fit to a well sketched out plot but put warped into something unrecognizable... Turks using C4s to blow up a cave, blowing haystacks, and Vlad creating a bio weapon... Bending history is something but using remote controlled explosives in 15th century is a travestite...
The problem with Turkish cinema especially concerning the movies with heroic themes is that the directors can never tell a thousand stories with visuals but rely on pointless motivational talks that screw up the pacing and there's plenty of it here. Pointlessly talking men trying to pump up each other, pointlessly screaming men with no purpose,the movie is a potpourri of all that.
And the last battle scene, you watch a few men running into an army is not something we haven't seen before. Men achieving the impossible in a battlefield is a cornerstone for these kind of movies but haystacks blowing up in the fore and backgrounds? Seriously? If the director could come with only that solution to create the battle atmosphere for a 15TH CENTURY MOVIE that is a disappointment in the lightest way of saying it.
It seems to be movie that takes itself serious and tries to boost Neo-Ottoman ism and Turkish nationalism but it is something not to be taken serious by the viewer otherwise it is a disappointment and a waste of time...
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