This movie wouldn't be made these days. Under the preassure of unnamed dictatorship which praising the Ottoman Empire without considering the truth; it is impossible to potray any Ottoman emperor like that. It is a very brave production and the fact that it cannot be made today is proof of how we are going through a dark period. However, as a movie, it's very dull. The acting is mediocre. Extras are painfully bad. Especially Okan Bayülgen acted so badly. Dialogues have been overly didactic and unrealistic. In places, there are sentences that really taste like a middle school show. There are textbook phrases such as "You were not only the first person to fly. You were also the first to fly from continent to continent.". For me it was hard to watch it at once.
Review of Istanbul Kanatlarimin Altinda
