Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

it is a historical movie and example of impressive cinematography. it has a story who reminds the old legends and a spectacular force of image. a film about the conquest of power, sacrifice and fight. who remains, years ago, like a touching memory about a special form of miracle. more than a film about Genghis Khan first steps for dominate the Mongols, it is a poem in image. the landscapes, the dialogs, the crumbs of myth, the social picture, the spirit of great legends, the power as tool for define itself. a film who, again and again, rediscover the beauty, savage universe. reminds the old rules. preserves the delicacy of mystery.

When people talk about " The greatest military strategist of all time " we often hear of the Eurocentric view with people such as Napoleon and Alexander The Great being mentioned . Genghis Khan sometimes gets brought up but perhaps it's because he's Asiatic and perceived as being a barbarian that he doesn't get name checked more often . The fact that his hordes started off on the Mongolian plains of East Asia and managed to get as far as Poland in an era when logistics and force projection were primitive to non existent was an almost superhuman feat . This film is about the early life of Khan What struck me about MONGOL is that it feels on a narrative level something similar to a Western . Young Khan sees a person close to him as a child murdered and he vows revenge . As the boy turns in to a man then a man has got to do what a man has got to do . There is a very strong element of Khan being a nomadic stranger and having to protect homesteaders from the bad guys but there's a slight difference that Khan's brutality and thirst of conquest goes way beyond the anti-heroism seen with Clint Eastwood starring in a movie directed by Sergio Leone It's a film directed by Russian Sergey Bodrov and occasionally I have the pleasure of discussing cinema with professional critics . One of them , an affable gentleman called David Wingrove . described the films of Michael Powell as " Pastoral Gothic " but that phrase could be accurately used more in discussing Russian cinema where the camera lovingly lingers on rural landscapes where humanity is a mere tiny spec of the bigger aspect of nature . One pivotal scene sees the young Khan arrive a temple and is watched by a wolf and while it then cuts to another scene therefore leaving Khan's predicament unexplained which sums up the film where the narrative is somewhat jarring but is compensated but its concentration of the metaphysical almost mystical beauty of nature

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!

I have just watched this movie. Indeed, most of us would love to see war scenes in the historical movies. Mass people knows that Temudjin as an brutal khan who is the one of most barbarian leaders of the world. But Mongol gives us more than this.Mongol helped me to think about characters of historical leaders. In some Japanese or Chinese movies, the reason of leaders brutality same with Temudjin. They all merciless because only a powerful leader can restrain crimes to people. So they "must" establish a new order to minimize peoples suffers. It looks like "big fish eats little one".Mongol tries to describe the background of a brutal khan. So I am really glad to see this movie and I will recommend it to see for everyone. It took 8/10 from me.