Mongol Critic Reviews

Even at the movie's most ridiculous (and Mongol is not without its ridiculous moments), this is a picture you laugh with more than laugh at.Read the full review

As a visual spectacle, it is all but overwhelming, putting to shame some of the recent historical epics from Hollywood. If it has a flaw, and it does, it is expressed succinctly by the wife of its hero: "All Mongols do is kill and steal."Read the full review

Quite grand, quite exotic, David Lean-style epic.Read the full review

Full of stunning views of China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan and showing an unexpected side of Genghis Kahn, Mongol feels like an old-fashioned epic.Read the full review

In general the film is so impressive that we can't leave the theater without wanting more.Read the full review

My only problem with Mongol is that--how often in life do you get to write this sentence?---Genghis Khan is a little too nice.Read the full review

Sergei Bodrov's Mongol relates the story of Genghis Khan's early years in a plodding, uninspired fashion that doesn't bode well for the next two entries in a planned trilogy.Read the full review

Mongol -- or, as I prefer to think of it, "Genghis Khan: The Early Years" -- is a big, ponderous epic, its beautifully composed landscape shots punctuated by thundering hooves and bloody, slow-motion battle sequences.Read the full review

Mongol is quality escapism: an exotic saga that compels, moves and envelops us with its grand and captivating story.Read the full review