Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Mar 9, 2024 3.5/4

Mongol redeems sweeping epics filled with armies engaging in bloody swordplay, volleys of arrows, and slow-motion combat, even while embracing all their formulaic elements, by simply getting it right.

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Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Nov 28, 2020 8/10

Gorgeous imagery, visceral battles, and powerful storytelling.

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Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Sep 17, 2020 3.5/4.0

Surprisingly accurate historically, beautifully designed, and well-acted.

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Debbie Lynn Elias Behind The Lens Nov 13, 2019

From the hardships of filming to the fight for authenticity, as did his subject succeed, so does Bodrov, as he show us the man behind the mnoster with Mongol.

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Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Jul 6, 2019 3/4

The majority of the film is top notch epic filmmaking, expertly crafted and beautifully paced by Bodrov, but the final act leaves a lot to be desired.

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James Vance Tulsa World Feb 6, 2018 3.5/4

For its two-hour running time, Mongol makes you believe that you're in the company of the future Khan and his companions as they struggle to endure the callousness of the times and the savage environment.

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Deborah Ross The Spectator Jan 27, 2018

Stunning to look at, but as an engaging, illuminating, convincing piece of cinema? No, not really.

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Ben Kenigsberg Time Out Nov 18, 2011 3/5

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Joshua Rothkopf Time Out Nov 17, 2011 2/5

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Austin Kennedy Sin Magazine Oct 17, 2008 2.5/4

This would have been one of the greatest all time epics, but there were some major gaps in the story.

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John J. Puccio Movie Metropolis Oct 10, 2008 6/10

...probably not the movie most audiences expected.

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Mike McGranaghan Aisle Seat Oct 8, 2008 3.5/4

Visually stunning, historically interesting, and very entertaining.

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Jul 19, 2008 B-

It's a lumbering, emotionally cold, slow-going old-fashioned escapist sweeping biopic on the early years of Genghis Khan.

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Jonathan F. Richards Film.com Jul 11, 2008

When we think of the fearsome Genghis Khan, we don't picture him as ever having been a little boy. But he must have been, and that is where this grand throwback to the sweeping historical epics of yesteryear takes up the Great Khan's story.

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Lori Hoffman Atlantic City Weekly Jul 10, 2008 3/4

... Bodrov's engaging vision of Genghis Khan in several moments almost feels like the silent movie epics by the Russian cinematic pioneer Sergei Eisenstein.

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Sandra Hall Sydney Morning Herald Jul 10, 2008

Genghis Khan's lost decade fuels a handsome fantasy.

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Phil Villarreal Arizona Daily Star Jul 9, 2008 3/4

Hell has no wrath like a Khan scorned.

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Mark R. Leeper rec.arts.movies.reviews Jul 7, 2008 7/10

A saga of blood feuds, betrayals, vendettas, and a lot of fighting The film is entertaining but more macho than intelligent.

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Phil Hall Film Threat Jul 5, 2008 1.5/5

It must have been a pretty weak year for subtitled fare if the Oscar voters sought to praise this inert, inept epic.

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Stanley Kauffmann The New Republic Jun 29, 2008

Mongol has just enough characterization to sustain its own reason for being -- cinematic fullness.

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