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hussonmez
Reviews
Turetskiy gambit (2005)
Awful and Disgusting
I gave 2 points out of ten, and those 2 points for visual effects, technique and colorful costumes. The rest? Crap. I don't know how to describe it...maybe like 1960s' James Bond movies, childish. What they call "historic events" is just a plot, a scene for the movie, nothing to do with real historic events as the movie does not have such a purpose....The maps are just a decoration, which really look good, but again unreal. That is OK, but why do they try so hard in the advertisements and so on to show it as a "historic movie" And if the movie is really an action movie, why do they depict Turks not only as villains, but also ugly and stupid? In many scenes Turks stumble and fall! They cannot run, they cannot hold a gun properly and fire! If we were in 1930s maybe we would laugh....But now, it felt disgusting. Heyy, look around guys, finance is just a prerequisite for making films, it shouldn't be the film itself. (((
Kurtlar Vadisi: Irak (2006)
Look What the Turks Are Doing !!!
Ha Ha!! The criticisms of many people offended by the movie is sooo funny! Come on guys, it is just a moviee! But if you are still worrying for the script, let me tell you that this movie is not more Anti- American than most Hollywood movies. The opinion of the public is mostly based on a news made by AP or Reuters, I don't remember which one. This news was probably made by a correspondent who either had not watched the movie or did not understand it because it was in Turkish.
Let's go into solid facts; the news read that "all the Americans in the movie are shown bad". This is wrong. Most of the Americans in the movie are simply soldiers (who are told they are fighting terrorists) who are doing nothing other than their duties, obeying orders. There are exactly 3 (three!) "bad" Americans, and 1 (one!) "good" American who objects to those bad guys bravely and he is killed right away. Except for the "bad" Americans, the soldiers don't harm civilians for no reason, the civilians are killed accidentally when they are under fire in clashes between soldiers and so-called "terrorists".
The news also mentions about that famous scene where "a child is killed in front of his mother". But that too happens unintentionally, contrary to what the news says, when the child is playing with a gun that an American soldier is holding, and it probably takes fire by itself. Then the Iraqis react to that by fire and the clash begins. But the civilians are again killed accidentally in fire-exchange, or as a result of Americans firing in panic, not intentionally, contrary to what the news says.
However the movie does criticize the American Government, implying that Iraq is a mission of fundamentalist Christian Americans (evangelists) and petrol lords. (isn't that what most Americans themselves think?) And unfortunately, there are scenes which might be classified as anti-semitic. I think that is the real point to worry rather than anti-americanism.
There is no need to mention my fellow turks' reaction to the movie, who take all they see on screen for real, they took this for real as well. I think we should write on top of movie screens "this just a movie, nothing you are watching is real, don't take it serious" with capital letters like they write on cigarettes that it kills.
The movie maybe a crude propaganda, and the script maybe weak, but the action scenes are not bad at all, the costumes and settings are somewhat between very interesting to very good, and finally it is fun to watch this movie if you don't have anything against action movies.
If there is someone to worry, i think it is the Turkish government; for the anti-semitic propaganda seeping into the country from everywhere, and for people who cannot discern reality from the fiction.