Mongol 6

Supposedly this tells the “back story” of Genghis Khan – his slave years before he ruled half the known world. It shows him moving from one attempted assassination to the next, with followers falling by the wayside each time. Nowhere do we see what would seem to be more important: how we found warriors to surround him after these calamities. The opening shots of a 12^th-century Asian city and the early scenes of the Mongolian steppes are gorgeous; the second half of the film struck me as stupid. In essence, this was little different from a Steven Segal movie; we just tend to give its lack of subtleties slack because it comes from Kazakhstan.