![]() ![]() ![]() Sergei Bodrov gets fantastic performances from the child actors (and the adult actors too, for that matter). The Mongolian ritual makes them blood brothers. They slice their palms and drip the blood into the same bowl of milk, which they share. While both young boys, Jamukha saves Temudgin from freezing. None are more important than Jamukha (Amarbold Tuvshinbayar). As Temudgin tries to elude his enemies, he makes important friends along the way. The journey and boy's decision set in motion a series of events that force Temudgin to spend the rest of his childhood and early adulthood on the run, narrowly escaping death. The clan is disrespected when young Temudgin chooses Borte (Bayertsetseg Erdenebat), a girl from a different village. But it doesn't work out the way the father intends. They are traveling to choose a wife for the boy, therewith making amends with a rival clan. Mongol begins as the nine year old Temudgin (Odnyam Odsuren), the boy who would become Genghis Kahn, rides horseback across the steppe with his father and others. Tadanobu Asano is able to conjure serenity throughout his performance as Temudgin, the young warrior who would unite Mongolia's clans and later sweep across Asia. ![]() It's not perfect, but compared to the Hollywood treatments of historical figures, as in Troy, Alexander and Kingdom of Heaven, Mongol has a universal appeal and raw honesty that is refreshing. From foreign film and documentary buffs to action fans who liked the spurting blood of 300, a wide range of movie and HT fanatics will enjoy Mongol. But even with New Line's failure to deliver the HD goods on a BD-50, the movie simply exudes quality. It deserves far better than the standard Dolby Digital track and less-than-stellar picture on a BD-25. Unfortunately, New Line (actually, this disc has Warner's fingerprints all over it) did not do justice to the high definition content. Any one of these reasons alone would probably make the Blu-ray a must-see. The movie tells a fascinating story of the most successful warlord in history, filmed with incredible artistry, acted with rare skill, bolstered with eye-popping action sequences and engineered with an exotic, enveloping soundtrack. He may become the brutal tiger." So begins Mongol. The plaintive wail of stringed Asian instruments weave together as an ancient Mongolian proverb is displayed in red. Sergei Bodrov's beautifully produced story of Genghis Khan's rise to power lacks a worthy transfer to high definition on New Line's BD-25. Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan Blu-ray Review ![]()
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