I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Wow! Such a good movie.

People are voting emotionally.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Chatrichalerm Yukol's "Suriyothai" (called "The Legend of Suriyothai" in English) focuses on one of the most important figures in Thailand's history. Although much of it is conjecture due to limited information about Queen Suriyothai, it's still an outstanding movie. We see how she gets forced to be arm candy for the lecherous king while all manner of intrigue and treachery dominate the kingdom.I understand that the US release, presented by Francis Ford Coppola, is shorter than the original version. I would like to see the original version. Nonetheless, the US release is still an impressive movie. The introduction of smallpox by Portuguese mercenaries is one of many examples of the effects that European colonialism had on the rest of the world (interestingly, Thailand avoided colonization). And then there's Burma's invasion of Siam; I guess that societies have been invading each other for thousands of years.Anyway, it's a good movie. Like I said, much of the movie is conjecture, but still well done.

Visual was very good but the history is incorrect.1) After King Rama Tibodi II dies in 1529, King Boromaraja IV takes over. King Boromaraja IV is King Rama Tibodi II's son not his brother as claimed by the movie.2) After King Boromaraja IV's death in 1533 Prince Ratsadatiratkumar takes over but is overthrown by Prince Prajai. Prince Prajai is the brother of King Boromaraja IV and not his nephew as claimed by film.3) In 1548, King Kaeofa, son of dowager queen Tao Sri Sudachan, tries to do away with her lover and in turn is killed. He was 13 at the time. Film shows him as much younger then that. After Kaeofa is killed, his brother Prince Srisin is placed on the throne (not shown in film) and then is overthrown by Tao Sri Sudachan and her lover Khun Waraniongsu who makes himself King.4) Khun Pirentoratep does then kill and overthrow Khun Waraniongsu in 1548 and places Prince Tienraja as King as shown in film. Khun Pirentoratep is shown as a good person in the film. What the film does not show is that 1568 Khun Pirentoratep would betray the King and join forces with Burma to destroy Ayutthaya. He then makes himself a puppet King with Burma as his overlord. To be fair his son, who later became king as Somdet Phra Sanpet II, did become one of Siam's most revered monarchs as he liberated Siam from Burmese tributary.One funny thing in the movie is that when Khun Waraniongsu was killed, Suriyothai made sure that Prince Srisin was not killed. She was warned that he will be a threat. He was, in 1561 he led a failed rebellion.I just cannot stand incorrect history.

I can understand why this film received rave reviews in Thailand and among the Thais in the US. The sets, the costumes, the battle scenes are exquisite. There are many scenes that show activity of daily living in Thailand in the olden days. Many of those are quite rare these days. It's very good from a historical and cultural point of view. It's the best efforts in Thai cinematography I've seen thus far and much better than a lot of junk that comes out of Hollywood.However, as an entertainment, it's quite lacking. I agree with some comments here that the acting is wooden and the story line disjointed. I do think it will do very well on the History Channel, or as a television series. In time, I hope acting, story lines, and editing in Thai movies will improve and deserve a second look.

The people on this site that complained about this movie being boring, must have seen an entirely different movie, on the contrary, I found it to be an exciting, action packed and culturally enlightening film. It isnt perfect, but It is defintely worth the time and money I spent on the VCD. To the uninformed I saw the original Thai cut of this film esp. when I heard that Francis Ford Coppola was going to release a shorter version of it, because he in all his benevolent wisdom knows better than the director how the picture needed to be edited. Mr Coppola all I want to ask is how come you didnt get rights to release all five hours of footage that was shot, instead of taking out scenes and replacing it with others? Somebody in Thailand should take 40 minutes out of Apocalypse Now and take out entire scenes and replace them with scenes from the additional 3 hours of footage that FFC shot for the movie.All the critics of this movie, esp those who feel it was too long need to think and consider that maybe the reason why: it jumps around in the story, there seems to be little character development, and some of the dialogue seems choppy might be because it was orignally intended after theater release to be shown on Thai television as a 2 part miniseries. My personal opinion is I dont think the film was long enough and in spite of that and the other weak points I mentioned I seldom found it boring. Great care and detail obviously went into period costumes and sets and the scope of this film is tremendous, especially in the intricate battle scenes, which were on par with many of the Hollywood spectacles. I also found a rare peek into Thai culture extremely fasinating, since it so seldom that we get an accurate glimpse of Asian cultures aside from the Japanese and Chinese cultures, and even though those protrayals usually condescending and jingoistic. Many of the same people who complain about this movie had no problem going to see long movies like Dances with Wolves or Braveheart, which too were highly entertaing if historical inaccurate films. I found that even though the dialogue in the final scene was a bit hokey, that it still packed an emotional wallop even knowing the Queen Suriyothai is going to die, not a spoiler folks, because the film opens with her death, there is just something about the sacrifice of one's life for something greater than yourself which is very dramatic and inspiring.The films major weakness is that even though the film is about her, it spends a lot of time on a lot of secondary characters most of which are fairly interesting, I wanted to see more of what made her tick. The whole thing works inspite of this weaknesses. If you like larger than life characters, well choreographed and bloody battle sequences, and some drama and intrigue then you will love this film.