You won't be disappointed!

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

That was what Cagan Irmak said before the movie was seen "if you are expecting clichés, you will not be satisfied". This movie was totally different. The style, the life, the people in the movie was kind of weird. However, everything was great, well prepared. Movie tells a tale about a "messenger" in ancient times. The tale tells people every side of a life, a woman lets men use her daughter for money, a bad man, a crazy woman, a boy and a girl that can not be together... Cetin Tekindor (Zekeriya) played nearly perfect in the movie. In addition, kids played their roles awesome. They were too natural, and they were living the environment. The soundtracks are great, images are impressive. One of the bests, 9/10.

The movie starts great and develops amazingly. story takes you away and you are watching a breath taking movie and your expectations get higher and higher.. then something happens and the ending part comes, you start to ask yourself that questions.. "am I watching the same movie? I was just watching a great movie what is this torture?" Yes, the last part of movie is a complete torture. What a pity such great movie like this wasted so easily with an end like this..that could have been much better, even could have been one of the best Turkish movies ever. Shame on the director.Last one about the actors; they did amazingly.. great acting skills.. congratulations..

First of all I'm really happy to see that Turkish cinema has reached international standards in terms of technical features of film making. The movie "Ulak" has very decent camera work, lighting, costumes and scene creation. Almost half of the movie is shot in the night and everything is well done. We can see every bit of the scene yet we're convinced that it's dark. This is not we're used to see is Turkish film making.Now let's come the movie itself. I'd never seen a Cagan IRMAK(the director) movie before. I did not have any expectations actually. I was very much neutral. After watching the movie I questioned myself and thought about it over and over but I could not figure out what all it was about! There is a promising story but it is very vague. One can get different messages from it or not. Neither I can say who the people are in the movie nor what the era it is they live in. It looks like they are one of the Turkish tribes before Ottoman Empire living in southern parts of Anatolia. But no one can say it is for sure. So, place, characters and the time is not so clear to the audience. Therefore we cannot know what to expect or how to interpret the story.And my last but not least complaint is, and I think this is the biggest problem of Turkish Cinema, the movie looks much more like a theater play than a cinema movie. Let me say why; most of the cast is coming from theater origin yet this is the least important cause of the problem. It doesn't feel like "Cinema" because it's shot in almost three places, a hand build village stage, a barn yard and some very short outside shots. Acting can be considered quite well if they were on the stage of the theater, in front of the audience. But the acting is much more dramatic than it should. One might say it's epic, but I could not see where the saga is.So, our directors are so keen to shot sagas and tales but before that they ought to learn how to tell a story on the big screen in a solid manner. But of course, they need to have a solid story and scenario beforehand.

First of all I was not expecting too much like the critics before watching the movie. But this movie really disappointed me too, like it did the critics. According to its trailer this movie offers you a classical religious saint story which will try to teach us a humanity lesson. But after I had watched the movie as I understand that writer criticizes these religious stories of saints and miracles.He is doing that criticism with a nice polite way so everyone can not understand the same thing but according to the message that the writer gave at the end of the movie, my opinion is he blames the faithful believers as a fairy storytellers. In that message he dedicated this movie to every child who likes to listen fairy tales! By the way of this opinion which this movie tries to implant us, do we have to think like "if we believe on religious saviors/saints and stand brave to devilish people, we may be killed or we can just take our revenge in our dreams?" Because of the message that this film is trying to give us, it really disappointed me and If you are expecting these kinds of things like I was expecting before watching the movie, I have to say that beware of it! If I have to criticize it as an art I can say that costumes and acting is great. Especially acting of the little children is unexpectedly good. But I can't say the same things for ambient because seeing big buildings in the horizon of an historical village was not good.