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First I saw the title I was excited since I have not see any movie about fall of Constantinople and I thought it would be interesting to to see it from other side (from Turkish perspective), but I was very disappointed.The story-line was built so badly and so boring. Things too fast and you could not get positive or negative feelings to characters. I'm not going in to historical context cause it will take us too fare, but I must say that it was fare from historical facts. But that's usual for movies, right? I felt smell of propaganda. Byzantines were so evil, standing on the Turks way and Turks choir Boys Choir on Sunday Mass... At battle scenes only Byzantines were dying and only Byzantines could kill were innocent, unarmed farmers. Acting was terrible. Even I could understand the original language acting was so bad. It was some kind of Turkish Soap Opera level. Costumes and props simply bad. CGI was awful, reminded me 90's. It's understandable that Turkey doesn't have experience on visual FX and it would be OK if the rest was good, but no...

a politic tool. obvious subjective, not interested by historical accuracy, sketch of a great event for the Eastern Europe, portrait of a hero and not the inspired manner to present the Byzance. but the nationalist purpose is only one of its direction. it has of poetry and flavor of old fairy tale, it has nice scenes of fight and decent acting. and far to impress, it is not real a waste of time. it is only a Turkish story. not correct , not fair play, using, not surprise for the East, clichés about the self courage and virtues and force. it is not a bad or a good film. because it has not ambition to be more than "our version of events". "our truth" . and, for a Romanian as me, after the historical movies by Sergiu Nicolaescu , this film could not be a surprise. only a meeting with well known ingredients.

The movies is built on a premise that a great siege is taking place, but what's not mentioned is that basically, most of the people have long left Constantinople, or died from the plague, and there are only 7000 soldiers left.That is up against a huge army of 100,000 Ottomans, the huge Ottoman fleet, and even European siege technicians who had taken the Sultans gold to work for him.If anything, the heroes of the movie should be the Greek Byzantines and the people who came to help them, who held out for 2 months against an army more than 10 times their own size, for two months.Some nice battle scenes, and it is well shot, but the drama element is unfortunately just propaganda presumably made for the Turkish public and I don't think does a lot for Turkish relations with other countries.Hopefully one day someone will make a decent movie about the fall of Constantinople - an historic event worthy of it. But this ain't it.

This movie was one of the most magnificent historical movies ever.. the actors were great.. scenario was excellent all of them from history real was.. I loved it so much.. the budget was so little but movie was superb.. if this movie was made by Hollywood and much more budget with it had become more splendid.. thanks so much to director producer actors and scenarists... the costumes and swords and other shields and cannonballs were fantastic.. like the kingdom of heaven this movie is a marvelous masterpiece I think.. and also the actors were fantastical seems like great strong warriors... also Faith sultan Mehmet wad a fabulous man emperor leader and warrior sure...