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We took a trip to a little Cinema in Nottingham to see, ‘Mongol’.
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This movie was worlds away from Indiana Jones new (and hopefully final) installment. The whole concept was thought through, each shot was carefully planned so as to give the most cinematic enjoyment possible.
Generally the Ghengis Khan Empire interests me and I have waited for a foreign film adaption of it for a long time. Yes I said foreign, because movie made by the Chinese are generally better, as they concentrate less on what the Western World want and give their art in a manner that is stunningly beautiful to behold, yet at the same time, it can be violent. But this was not a Chinese Movie, it was a international project from most of the eastern world, mainly Russian though, with performances given by Mongolian, Chinese, Japanese and other Eastern Country Actors.
I was a little apprehensive going into the movie as I didn’t quite know what to expect, but I knew I had to watch this at all costs.
From the very first shot in the movie to credits it had a “WOW!” factor that I hadn’t seen in any other movie since the likes of ‘HERO’ and ‘CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER’ (a review of these movies can be expected). The Mongolian countryside was beautiful and with each shot of a character, there seemed alway to be a large amount of landscape in the background, and in most cases with as great contrasting colour. This film had to have every type of weather and landscape you could put into a non-nature film. It had snow storms, thunderstorms, rain storms, dry deserts, snowy hills, mountains, bleak plains, grassy slopes, etc. These were each brought in were they helped the dramatic effects, for instance bleak plains for huge battles, grassy slopes for peaceful relaxing, lightning to show the fear it inflicted on the mongols, snowy hills when a young Temudgin is escaping, and so forth.
It wasn’t so much of an action film as a film about Temudgin and Borte’s love. However it had battle shots worthy of films such as Gladiator and Lord of the Rings yet not as bloodthirsty.
It seemed to have everything from Comedy to Romance, Drama to Action, and more. It seemed to have achieved what Hollywood strives to but rarely do. And that is provide a truly amazing movie that make the audience just watch in awe as the story unfolds.
The acting was amazing, the stunts awesome, the script perfect, and the directing was top notch. The only reason this isn’t a 5 star movie is that the action scenes did not last long enough. They would cut the battles off just as they started and then shows the finishing moments, which was, to be honest, a little disappointing as that is not was the trailer suggested.
All in all though an amazing watch and I throughly recommend this to anyone.
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