Aranybulla

Utter waste of time, the screenpay is mediocre, writing is horrendously bad. It pretends to be a historical story but the plot has not much to do with the real historic events or characters. A sorry attempt to romanticise the non existent Hungarian greatness for a big load of govt. Financial contribution. It dares do compare itself with Game of Thrones, that is the best joke in the series, nevertheless if it is referring to the alternative history than I understand the link. This is the same disgusting agit-prop type story about imaginary and sugarclad history which was flourishing during the imfluzof USSR, but wait in those days Hungarian directors has balls and dared to write things like: the Russians are already in the storage room. Nowdays they truly are...

This mini-series is a humiliation not only of an important event in Hungarian history, but also of the art of cinema. The incumbent Fidesz, a far-right party and its Putin's lapdog PM in power ordered a propaganda mouth piece that has become a visual garbage funded by taxpayers' money, and is characterized by utter incompetence and ignorance.

The characters move like puppets without understanding or even inhabiting their roles, and the direction and the visual realization of the series is completely amateurish. What is more, to portray the Hungarian kingdom in the early 13th century as the sole defender of European Christianity is tantamount to falsifying history. There is a succession of "great kings", "wisest rulers", "most successful periods" in Hungarian history, kings who were "no greater warriors", and one need not bother to find out what exactly this means.

Stay away from watching it at any cost.

I had high expections since I knew the hungarian goverment spent tremendous money to make this movie. My family and I (bare in mind we are a conservative, history respecter family) sat down and watch the whole series in 3days during the Christmas holidays. If only we would do something else... It was long, borring, full of fake historical facts, not to mention the bad actors.. 😞 It was honestly, pain to watch!

If you dont want to suffer, do a favor for yourself and do not spend your precious time to watch this movie.

You were warned. God bless Hungary and its people, but gosh it was probavly the worst series I have ever watched....

Even if we disregard the claims of the creators about the historicity of this miniseries (which is clearly false), or that it is an utter waste of taxpayer money (since its entire budget of $4m is state-financed, with a nearly zero box office), it is also badly written, features mediocre acting and is terribly boring!

These kinds of idealistic series or movies were typical in communist Hungary between 1950 and 1980. But those at least had some viewers, as there was only one television channel in the country.

The script is completely braindead. Lacks any character development. The actors were chosen according to their loyalty towards government officials. It doesn't feature any of the famed and generally accepted Hungarian actors, since those are regarded to be too "liberal" who "cannot be trusted". Just look at the fact that one of the main actors Balázs Bölkény attended the same faculty on the same university as half of the current government: The faculty of law on the Pázmány Péter Catholic University. And this is the guaranteed recipe for bad quality products: contraselection!

This is not a work of art. There is no srcipt, no scenery, backgrounds are missing. A dozen horseman crawl on the meadow (episode 4, 5), the king passes laws with three (!) lords on the meadow, too (end of episode 5.), sometimes you can see a wall of a cathedral, a well or a tree. Experts relate what happened instead of showing it on the screen. From time to time drawings, maps, little banners or tin soldiers subtitute the real scenes.

Narration is boring like some kind of a dreary lesson from an old and dusty textbook; dialoges are lifeless, they aim only to illustrate the ideology of the producers: King II. András was a great and wise christian leader, hungarians are christians, they protect Europe against the islam. This message directly refers to the ideology of the recent political power: Orbán Viktor protects the christianity against the rotten liberalism of the western countries.