An insult to human intelligence... Utter Turkish propaganda crap...
I dont know what those people had in mind when they were making this "movie", if the script was written for Turkish propaganda reasons to present Turkey as a superpower or what, or if it was made that way in order to get tickets from the Turkish crowd... Whatever the truth is, this was one of the most lousy medieval historical epic movies I ve ever seen in my life.
The armors, swords, shields etc looked like they were borrowed from some cheap Dungeons & Dragons movie. The Byzantine armors were totaly unhistorical. CGI effects looked like they were made by college guys. Acting... Huh? What acting?
Besides these "details", what made me LOL was the script.
The heroic Konstantinos Palaiologos who died fighting the Turks is presented like a schizophrenic, hysterical madman, speaking Turkish throughout the whole movie.
He was leading the defense of the city from the beginning to the end, fighting every single day in the front line like a common soldier and finally killed during combat but in the movie he is not shown fighting at all or getting killed.
He is presented giving a speech in the hippodrome, although the hippodrome was in ruins and hadnt been used for centuries.
The Byzantines are presented as tyrrants and the Ottomans as liberators.
You won't see a Byzantine killing a Turkish soldier in the whole movie. Only Turks that kill Byzantines by the hundreds.
The numbers of the Byzantine army are made to look huge, although there were only 5.000 Greeks and 2.000 mercenaries and volunteers on the walls because the empire was in decline.
Justiniani, a Genoese commander, was wounded during the last stand, fled from the battlefield and found refuge in a Greek island (where he died 2 days after). But no, the movie tells us that he was killed by a Turk in single combat (!!!)
Although the real Mehmet was nothing more than a butcher who impaled his opponents and had ordered his troops to sack Constantinople for 3 days, an order that led to thousands of unarmed civilians being slaughtered like pigs, he is presented in the last scene entering Agia Sophia as a savior and the Byzantines who found refuge there, accepting him as their leader with huge smiles on their faces as if the siege had never happened at all.
To sum up, if you have an IQ over 50 and are able to react to sunlight, do not watch this silly, pathetic insult to movie making. Better watch Kingdom of Heaven for a second time.