How sad is this?

Brilliant and touching

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

I agree with the other commentators, it is bad. Actually, worse then that. It is harmful, since it portrays history in a completely slanted and erroneous way. Even as a joke it is bad. There are historical errors and impossibilities in this nonsense.However, it has a redeeming quality, however not as a movie, but as an audio-CD. The music is superb, and highly enjoyable. This music should have been used in a far more valuable film-production.Well, this is what happens, if one writes-produces a movie without his heart, mind and soul in it. The producers would have, or could have been successful if their judgment is correct, their choice of adaptation accurate and their expectation more realistic.So, don't look at it, just listen.

This is the most terrible historical movie i'd ever seen. I don't know why Franco Nero is playing the one of the greatest Hungarian leaders? There are so many actor in Hungarian who can play better this role. It would be a national movie isn't it? I think the directing is ridiculous. For example, when then Hungarians crossing over the 'endless wetland', you can see the dry grass near the track with knee-deep smash :( I had to laugh when i saw the great enemy. There was about five horsemen, who attacks the Hungarian people! And the choreography... it is more than annoying. The acting wouldn't be too bad, but the director gives the actors bad instructions. In the most of the movie the actors are just put their eyes int the far, and the cameras watching their motionless faces... But, the music is great. The music writer gives his best in this production. So, if you want to laugh with your friends, call them, get popcorn, beer, watch this film. But for an national historical film... it's terrible.

I think this is the most boring film I've ever seen, even though I'm a Hungarian, I say that I've wasted more than 2 hours of my life, and I've waited the end of it, was curios of it. That's all. The soundtrack is marvelous, written by Koltay Gergely, the founder of Kormoran, which is one of the purest Hungarian folk and roll band ever.

Maybe it's not so bad after all,but I expected so much... I think the non-Hungarian viewers will like it better, because after all it's not a bad movie, music is cool, costumes are too, and they can get known the origin and ancient history of Magyars (Hungarians).Story is also very good, because its pure history :) To make a long story short, it was a total disappointment ,not only for me,but for everyone I was spoken to. Why? Answer is simple I think. Too few battle scenes made it a little bit boring. And when finally a battle occurs what can we see? The attacking enemy horde consists of 3-4 !! horsemen...And choreography is far worse than for example in Braveheart or V. Henry.Yah,the main weakness is the choreography of all the battles I think. But the acting is good. But the biggest problem in our opinion, that in our imaginations our ancestors are not the same as in the movie. They were hotheaded,reckless,bellicose warriors, and whole Europe was seized by fear cause of their Excellent horse-archer skills. And the movie doesn't shows this. We can see only a bunch of miserable fugitive, who ask for the inhabitants: - Please let me live here in the Carpathian basin. No matter however what have I said, because of the subject, this is the movie that all Hungarian (living here or anywhere in the world) MUST view at least once.