Meet Genghis who has lives to spare - during this movie he escapes from captivity when having a wooden noose around his neck (he does this twice - as a child and then as an adult), recovers from an arrow wound, his wife rescues him out of Chinese slavery... All this is decorated by wonderful scenery and comical dialogue. At one point he tells his bride how she will not be able to withstand his amorous approaches, in some scenes with his warrior brothers there is simple grunting. There is little explanation as to how he rose to power and consolidated the various Mongol tribes. At one point in the movie he is cavorting on the steppes with his wife and children and in the next scene he is the leader of a vast band of warriors. The transitions in this movie are baffling. Perhaps the director thought all the horseback riding and endless walking would suffice as an explanation. There is even less elucidation on Genghis the battlefield tactician - the battle scenes in the movie are reminiscent of the style of 'Lord of the Rings' In real life Genghis had several wives and concubines - so much for the comic romance.
Review of Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
