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Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Point Blank. Watch the movie, which is not bad at all, and you will be messmerised by the end battle scene. Music, screenplay, filming, everything is absolutely top in the end battle scene. Never seen anything remotely comparable to it as battle scenes. 10/10. That is why the movie got 8/10 overall from me.

Unlike many historical films, having an interest in the subject area is not needed at all to enjoy and appreciate this movie. The visuals, stunning scenery and action alone in 'Mongol' make it a beautiful film to watch.The story of Genghis Khan is fascinating and I thought it was presented very well in the film. There was more emphasis on the actual story than the action and special effects, which is what I prefer. The action itself was impressive but not overdone, as it so often is, which was also a pleasant change.'Mongol' is a very well made and visually stunning film that can be understood and enjoyed by all.

I like the story about the renowned Taoist master who was summoned by Genghis Khan in Beijing; missing him there, he had to travel for three years, crossing half of Asia to find him in his camp in Afghanistan, and can you imagine the arduous trek to meet a fearsome man capable of who knows what if displeased. Nothing fruitful came from the encounter eventually, the warlord wanted to know about a secret recipe for immortality, the sage had only Taoism to give. They went their own ways after, one to raid India, the other walked back home. But something did happen. The long journey was chronicled by a companion, giving us a rare glimpse of life from the Great Wall to the Hindu Kush, only possible because an old man set out to go.Journeys can be about who's waiting on the other end or not; but they're always about life glimpsed in the process, ways of traveling. Films too of course.The destination here is a portrait of Genghis, his rise from nothing in the steppe to unify the tribes. It leaves off as he's about to embark on epoch-making history so we don't get the sweeping conquest and atrocity, we get a national hero molded to necessity by a ruthless world. A second film was in the works apparently but scrapped.No matter. It's the lack of real journey that I miss. Oh we do get some glimpse of Mongolian rite and custom along the way, the savagery of life, it was filmed near where events must have taken place, and the faces and dresses on actors look "real" enough, even though the lead is Japanese. But it's always all part of obviously plotted theatrics. The whole shorthand used to jot down this chronicle, the breath that animates it, the eye that looks, none of it feels like it draws soul from another time and corner of the world, none of it jolts from the commonness of "historic epic".I end up with a handful of movie scenes scattered about the steppe, borrowed gestures, poses and silences of somnolence, movie battles, and I'm just not satisfied with airbrushed convention and generic TV- level imagination as ground to walk on. It takes me nowhere.Fun thing to note. This is about a victor who managed to concentrate all this power and then just spilled it over half the known world, leveling and scattering instead of building. The neighboring Chinese were as genocidal as he was (more in fact), but had been cultivating for centuries a narrative of cohesion that creates culture that endures to create abstraction. When they celebrate their treacherous past, it might be Hero that we get.

I have just watched this movie. Indeed, most of us would love to see war scenes in the historical movies. Mass people knows that Temudjin as an brutal khan who is the one of most barbarian leaders of the world. But Mongol gives us more than this.Mongol helped me to think about characters of historical leaders. In some Japanese or Chinese movies, the reason of leaders brutality same with Temudjin. They all merciless because only a powerful leader can restrain crimes to people. So they "must" establish a new order to minimize peoples suffers. It looks like "big fish eats little one".Mongol tries to describe the background of a brutal khan. So I am really glad to see this movie and I will recommend it to see for everyone. It took 8/10 from me.