Vlad, el Empalador

Cannot be placed outside the Turkish community. Historically incorrect, politically dubious and zero entertainment.

Fantasy portrayal of history without logic in Bollywood style without essence and with poor acting.

After bringing an end to the Byzantine Empire by conquering Constantinopole in 1453 the Ottoman Empire in Mehmed The Conqueror (El Fatih) time controlled an area of over 1 million sqare killometers with huge millitary assets. In the movie the Empire is portraited as the ... underdog "bullied" by the small vassal state of Wallachia. It's insulting in terms of both logic and historical facts. In documented history records the Ottomans were controlling vassal rullers by keeping young foreign princes at the Ottoman court, as a measure of inssurance. This was also the case for Vlad, the ruller of Wallachia who had his share of revenge after spending his childehood as a prisoner in sultn Murad II court ( Murad was Mehmed father).

Fanciful complete inversion of history; depicting Ottoman invaders as noble and good, and Romanian defenders of their land as evil. The acting is as stilted as you'll ever see, too bad to even be comical. The pacing, action and plot flow is confusing and choppy, lacking any continuity. Not worth the time of even a free viewing.

I enjoy watching historical dramas and action films. I knew immediately when I saw Vlad on the screen in the opening of the film that I rented a real "turkey"... pun intended. So obviously Turkish propaganda. Oh, well...I guess I'll watch it tonight, maybe it'll put me to sleep or give me a laugh. On the plus side, their are some very handsome actors, so that helps a bit, haha! I guess if you're Turkish you might enjoy this film, otherwise I would pass.

Now take that skewed perspective and substitute the African slaves with the defendind Romanians and the Americans with the Ottoman Empire. How exactly is this movie accurate and where is the reality and truth of history I don't know. What is more surprising is that in the age of technology and social media someone thought that a movie like this is suppose to bring sympathy towards Turkey.

Talk about sore losers, sore losers till the end, even 500 years later. At least those that put this movie and this version of history on a pedestal.