Catch Mongol, Sergei Bodrov’s epic tale of the formative years of Genghis Khan at the Landmark Uptown Theater starting on June 21st for a presumably short run (although it’s getting an unusually large marketing push). Newsday describes it as a “Bold, epic battle-happy movie that humanizes the world-conqueror and gives him plenty to be aggressive about,” while Entertainment Weekly says that “Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov contrasts images of sweeping landscape and propulsive battle with potent scenes of emotional intimacy in Mongol, his quite grand, quite exotic, David Lean-style epic.” The New York Times notes that “Mongol is a big, ponderous epic, its beautifully composed landscape shots punctuated by thundering hooves and bloody, slow-motion battle sequences.” More reviews here.
