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This film is shameless propaganda disguised as a love story. Funded and produced in Turkey, it rewrites history to portray the Ottoman Empire sympathetically while ignoring or softening the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek genocides. Instead of confronting one of history’s greatest crimes, it hides behind glossy romance and “tragic misunderstanding.” It’s manipulative, revisionist, and deeply disrespectful to every victim of that era.

I love this movie and I would recommend to watch this movie. I would give 9 points

Picture this: I sat down to watch 'The Ottoman Lieutenant', expecting a captivating love story set during WWI. Instead, I got a revisionist history class that would make even a conspiracy theorist squirm. For a movie claiming to be a romance, it seems to be more in love with rewriting history than delivering on the promised plot. It's like someone handed them a history book, and they decided, "Nah, let's use this for kindling instead." I mean, seriously. They portray the Armenians, who were the actual victims of the Armenian Genocide, as some rival gang with their own army. This is beyond absurd. Come on, guys! Armenians were the good folks living on their ancestral land for thousands of years before the Ottoman Empire showed up and decided to architect the first genocide of the century starring 1.5 million Armenians. Not cool! Except it gets worse. The film seems to be suggesting that the victims of that genocide were militarily on par with the victimizers. That's right! They're hinting that the victims had an army to rival the oppressors. Can you imagine a movie coming out as a response to'Schindler's List, where the Jews are a global superpower going toe-to-toe with the ****? Yeah, me neither. The movie is a less entertaining, more infuriating version of 'The Promise'. The two are like night and day, or rather, like truth and a badly spun lie. 'The Promise' gives an honest depiction of the Armenian Genocide, while 'The Ottoman Lieutenant' seems to be playing a cruel game of historical Mad Libs. To the unsuspecting viewer, 'The Ottoman Lieutenant' might seem like a harmless war movie. But let me tell you, it's as harmless as a shark in a kiddie pool. It attempts to wipe clean a genocide that the world should never, ever forget. To sum up, if you're a fan of history, truth, and not supporting denialism, steer clear of 'The Ottoman Lieutenant'. There are plenty of films out there that entertain without trying to pull a fast one on history. This film, though? It's about as entertaining as a root canal and about as accurate as a GPS system from 1915.

This film features some impressive cinematography, with foreign landscapes shown off via aerial photography. There are some good battle scenes too but the basic plot was a little bland. I thought it was no better than average really, overall.

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In my opinion, this is a romance that provides cover for a whitewashed history of the Armenian Genocide. Without a shred of passion evoked by the film’s love triangle and the debasement of historical fact in the movie's war-torn storyline. The Ottoman Empire attacked Russia. Typical the commentators here abusing Armenians. The same mentality that supported Germans.

At first I thought this movie will have an interesting love story in the middle of the Armenian/Ottoman conflict in the World War 1, when the Armenian genocide happenned etc and they will not only show the love story part but also all the bad etc. The bad was shown, but it was in the background mostly and just to show how good the ottoman lieutenant is. I mean something was lacking for this to be properly good movie, it was decent, actors were okay and the movie setting was great of course, but still.

this movie doesn't even address the 1.5 million Armenians the Ottoman Turks like the officer in this movie where busy killing instead of fighting the War...while the young Male Armenians where sent in mass to the Front to do their duty...believing that the Ottoman Government was going to be **** I'm 100% sure this completely leaves out the Jew Zion connection to the Young Turks movement and the treaty that was to transfer Armenia to the Zion movement so they could create their Jew **** yeah, there was a big reason to kill those Armenian Christian...1st they where Christian and you know what Jews and Muslims think of **** 2nd The land needed to be clear for the Jew State.....lets not even talk about Anatolia (750,000 Killings of the Christians Greek population)... this movie is 100% **** right from the start if it doesn't even cover this atrocities.

Michiel Huisman has absolutely outdone himself with this film; it had me entranced from the start. Beautifully shot, amazing casting and the time and effort put into the making of this film really shone through. I feel the costumers deserve an Oscar nomination for this one - everything was spot on which for a period drama is almost impossible:) Flawless casting and great character development leads the viewer through the story; this film will bring out emotions and provoke thought. I loved the perspective of the film; it is an exceptional sensitive retelling of an historical story from both perspectives and I think this is one of the absolute highlights of this film. See it - you won't be disappointed! Take the tissues though...

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This film is seriously interesting! The visual effects and scenario are great. There is a scenario that touches the heart of man. I do not agree with negative comments about The Ottoman Lieutenant.

A beautiful Story. I liked the romance between main characters and the historical background. To be honest It takes you in to the story. Stars: Michiel Huisman, Hera Hilmar, Josh Hartnett Michiel Huisman, Josh Hartnett, Ben Kigsley ... You will enjoy.

Right actor and actress stand together in this movie. Stay away from non correct reviews. They all are **** Search and learn history. Not from tellings or myths.

Simply beautiful. A must watch. I wonder why the critics hated this movie while users loved it. Curious case. Especially Turkish actor Haluk Bilginer's acting is awesome. I am going to watch more movies of him for sure. Cheers.

Art management is great. As a historical movie, It has a very successful interpretation. The orientalist point of view is not on the uncomfortable level. It will be a special place among historical films.

Ermeni saçmalıklarından sonra sinemaseverlere ilaç gibi gelecek bir film... Gerçi aşk meşk işleri dünyanın en savaşçı ırkı için angaryadır ama olsun, emeklerine sağlık...

Ben Kingsley, Haluk Bilginer, Michiel Huisman, Josh Hartnett and Hera Hilmar that great acting, story and ambiance! You have to watch this movie, if you want historical movies, places and stories.

touching movie with authentic atmosphere. not focusing the history, not trying to make propaganda. just telling the naive love story and history is only background. It is not about agony of armenian. so it does not have to tell the issue or give detail.

Gorgeous acting. Amazing environment. I really have difficulty in understanding armanians why you are approaching a film politically. Stay away from bigot behaviors

Absolute snooze-fest filled with disconnected characters and bad acting. The movie very obviously tried to whitewash the Greek, Armenian and Assyrian genocides perpetrated by Turkey during World War 1. Awful movie all-round. Don't waste your time.

A young, headstrong American woman travels to Turkey on the eve of World War ! to deliver a truck and supplies to a remote medical mission. Her escort is the titular handsome Muslim who becomes her paramour. Predictable conflict for her affection mounts between him and the earnest doctor (Josh Hartnett). This is trying to be one of those sweeping romantic epics, but it just got the sweeping part right: spectacular locations and lovely cinematography. When it comes to story, this duo consistently sets out to do ridiculously risky things that appear heroic but defy reality. This movie lacks the passion needed to make it work, between the lovers or by the director. Despite the barely credible story, It's competently made, but lacking any fervor.