SnoopyStyle In 1192, Temüjin is a prisoner of the Tangut kingdom. Twenty years earlier, he's a young boy taken to choose a wife. He picks Börte and agrees to return after 5 years. His Khan father is poisoned and follower Targutai leads a revolt. Temüjin is saved when Targutai accepts the tradition of not killing children. Temüjin barely survives and makes Jamukha his blood brother. He would be taken prisoner and enslaved. With Börte, he becomes a great leader leading to a rivalry with Jamukha.This is a compelling story. I really like the driven Temüjin boy. The action is violent. There is a desolated brutality to the landscape. The movie does get a little slow after Temüjin is imprisoned in Tangut. It needs to raise the intensity of that section leading up to the climatic battle.

g-bodyl As a student of history, it would be beneath me to avoid a movie depicting the early life of perhaps the greatest Mongolian ever to inhabit this planet. Because it's not a Hollywood production, the accuracy is not questioned and the film gives a character study, not just a battle arena. However, there are just enough battles and blood to satisfy action fans. But I truly enjoyed the fact that the film points out the early Mongolians were not just blood lust, but they had a culture which incorporates religious and family aspects.Sergei Bokrov's film is about the early life of Temujin as he endured enslavement as a child and how he rises politically with a goal to unite all Mongolians as he defeat the local tribes to band them together as one.This film is well-acted for the most part. Tadanobu Asano is excellent as Genghis Khan and not only he portrays Khan as a violent man, he portrays him as a man who does have a soft side, especially when it comes to his family. However, I'm not sure what to think about the performance of Sun Honglei as Jamukha. His acting seemed to be a little over-the-top.Overall, Mongol is a fascinating film about a man people really don't know too much about. The film has good central themes regarding abduction, family, love, and leadership. The film features sweeping and gorgeous cinematography as the film was shot in some of the most beautiful locations on this planet. The action and drama intermingle with each other very well. On the whole, I was quite pleased with this film. I rate this film 8/10.

pesic-1 After about half an hour I stopped wondering when the film would actually start. I remembered it just before the end. As end titles rolled, I wondered: How come the film never even began? You see, the entire film feels like back story to events that will be the focus of the film. Unfortunately that is all we ever get. Scenes are disjointed, we are never explained why these scenes matter, and we have no clue where the story is going. These are episodes that don't even create a story. Most of the time I had no idea why the filmmakers thought that particular scenes should even be in the film or why they should be abandoned abruptly. Until the very end I h ad no idea what I was watching or where it was all going.This is a very bad piece of cinema. It is not engaging, it is extremely confusing, and ultimately it does not manage to tell a story - even a boring one. And boring it is.

Jordache Wee This is one hella great epic movie. Great art of photography indeed, the scenery of the landscape grabs the audience attention on the visible beauty of the Mongolian plains. Their culture and language were as if purify.This film is the finest film of the century. It even reveals great values such as loyalty, trustworthy, code of honor. Although Borte was raped or the child not belong to Temudjin – he treated them as his without any biases.Temudjin portrays more of his kindness and generosity than barbarism nor tyranny. He treated his people and warriors with compassionate and equal. Yet all of this were shown in the film before the closing scene states that he finally what the world all knew him as the Great Khan conqueror: Genghis Khan!