Cicero

It is a very compelling story of a historical person who played an important role in Ankara during second war. The casting of Erdal Besikcioglu and Burcu Biricik deserves 8/10 rating. Co-acting cast is definitely at 5/10 rating. The movie sounds as if it had a bug during the sound mixage. There is an echo during dialogues and we even asked Movie Theater if the problem is with their sound system. They rechecked and confirmed that it is the original playback. Also some shooting places are not so realistic and it feels like it is shot in a studio environment.

After the film, "what did I watch?" I asked myself. The film seems to have exaggerated. Erdal Besikcioglu played well, but the fiction is a bit overstated.

The script is a Hollywood-style rewriting of the history, quite different from the real history (see: Saving Private Ryan). It is more "inspired" by the life of Ilyas Bazna. A love story was added for dramatic effect and Cicero was turned into a less greedy person.

In terms of viewing pleasure, if you can get through the first half hour, the movie starts to get interesting.

In terms of acting: Erdal Besikçioglu and Burcu Biricik's acting was good.

Other than that dubbing feels terrible. I couldn't understand why English and German people speaks Turkish anyway. It would be better if they prefer them to speak their original language with Turkish subtitles.

My overall score is 7/10. Not a masterpiece but not a bad movie either.

The movie is at least 8/10. I have no idea why is it so underrated. I wouldn't really say anything bad about the movie. The costumes and scenes are very beautiful. Actors and actresses were really brilliant. Hopefully, this will get the attention it deserves and we'll have more movies like this one because our history is full of interesting stories to tell.

I broke 3 stars because the film isn't historically accurate.