Memorable, crazy movie

Let's be realistic.

Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

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.

I started watching this movie last night and only watched the first hour. As far as I've seen the actors do not fit the historical characters mostly. The main character "Fatih Sultan Mehmet" gives a feeling of a weak man determined to destroy the Byzantium empire. He is reflected as a sick minded, obsessive person with no human feelings. If you can recall the Turkish TV series "Sultan Murad the 4th" with Cihan Unal starring as the sultan , compared to him , Sultan Mehmed character is a weakling. I think that is an insult to the actual person who is considered as one of the most heroic sultans in the Ottoman lineage. Most of the other characters also seem like they can't reflect the persona of a 15th century historical figure. They play their parts as if they are in a contemporary movie. It seems to me that the producers didn't employ serious historical consultants in the making, but they just made up stuff as they wished. If you compare the characters in this movie to a real good historical movie such as "mission" with Robert de Niro, you can see what I mean.I think the reason behind the bad casting is in the politics in Turkey. The financiers were probably from one conservative group, the production crew an the cast were from modernists, and as a result, they didn't cast some of the actors in Turkey who would fit to some of the roles perfectly because they were affiliated with other groups. It's a pity that political wars in Turkey weakens everything from economy to film industry.Other than these, this movie deserves praise for some good action scenes, computer generated graphics and visual effects, costumes, and set designs.

This movie was amazing. It had me paying attention throughout it. It was great writing, with amazing historical accuracy, and was a great retelling about a battle that changed the course of history. Very interesting piece about history and how amazing this war was to conquer Constantinople. This was so much better than 300 with all its inaccuracies and the fact that they hid a lot of truth about the Greeks at the time (like having sex with little boys, Disgusting.). Also Troy was a very stupid movie, and holds nothing to this movie. I'm sick of all the fake historically inaccurate movies that are so popular, and was great to see a real movie based on actual fact. Amazing movie and you MUST check out.