Russian film about the greatest Mongol of all spoken in Mongolian with subtitles.¬† So it may as well be an American film in Mongolian with subtitles–you can’t really tell.¬† You can tell that, for an epic, it’s relatively low budget.¬† A bit into the movie, I wondered what the R rating was for, then the first large battle took place and I was sold.

Genghis Khan’s early history isn’t recorded because Mongolians pass history down verbally rather than in writing. So if you make a movie about Genghis Khan’s childhood and life leading up to becoming Khan of the entire empire, you can essentially make everything up.¬† If I were watching the History channel, I might be mad¬† But if this caveat lets people make a movie filling in very large holes in history with their imaginations, I’m not so mad.

Throw it on your queues!¬† Went on Wikipedia about it and found out that it’s the first of a trilogy.¬† Went to IMDB to read trivia and found out that the rest of the trilogy might not be made because of the economy.¬† Here’s hoping.

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