filipvladov One hell of a good movie everybody has a different opinion but this movie has a great story line will definitely recommend watching it .

semih_best This whole review section: English people not being able to accept the past. Yes it was exaggerated at some parts, but this wasn't a documentary nor educational video. Comments like: "The part where they dragged the ships over land was only 1 minute". Of course it is not done in one minute, but would you like to watch days of ships being dragged over land? The film gave the viewer adrenaline, not education. And to be honest, it gave Turkish people proud. I watched this movie in Rotterdam Pathé cinema. At the end of the movie the whole room of more than 400 people were applauding. The first and last time I had ever experienced such thing.

unixfreaxjp I watched this movie without reading any reference (except the trailer), so I think I can write my honest opinion. If you want to watch it, please bear it in your mind that this movie is the historical basis event that is fictionalize as for entertainment, then you won't get any disappointment. However, if you want to see this movie and expecting the historical summary to be well-presented in there, please consider not to expect too much and be ready for some contradictions to what we learned in the historical lessons in school.I didn't watch any Turkish movie before this. But I think they spend good effort and a relevant budget for its making, and for the result it is a presentable entertainment, meaning: you can enjoy this movie with relax with the pop-corn in your hands and enjoy some heroic actions.For the historical point of view itself, it is a bit too one-sided story although some dialogue of Constantinople and Rome was presented, it missed or maybe made up some important details, and I will not say much of those. It seems the director wanted to build the modern historical image of the Ottoman empire from their point of view, and they made it. As entertainment I score it as 8, and as historical background is 4, the producers, directors & actors did their best in overall which deserve a 7. So the average score I can give is 6.3, rounded up to 6.

slatinskidazdevnjak When I first saw the title i was really interested in this them, especially because no film was made about the fall of Constantinople before, or not to my knowledge, I was excited about it. But to my huge disappointment this movie is all about glorification and exaggeration of the Ottomans, their ruler and other MACHETE SUPER heroes, a complete propaganda about the conquest of Constantinople and Balkan's. It remind's me of some cheap Turkish TV-shows and other trash movies,with bad acting, cheap special effects etc.. not a history movie that I was expecting at all! They really ruined the chance to make a good movie. Final scene of Sultan Mehmed II entering the Hagia Sophia almost made me throw up. I really wonder who gave this movie such a high grades.