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- 2017
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- Paladin
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- 2017
- R
- Paladin
- 1 h 46 m
Summary A beautiful, strong-willed woman (Hera Hilmar), frustrated by ongoing injustice at home, leaves the United States after meeting Jude, an American doctor (Josh Hartnett) who runs a remote medical mission within the Ottoman Empire — a world both exotic and dangerous, and on the brink of what is about to become the first World War. There, ...
Directed By: Joseph Ruben
Written By: Jeff Stockwell
- 2017
- R
- Paladin
- 1 h 46 m
- 2017
- R
- Paladin
- 1 h 46 m
The Ottoman Lieutenant
26
8.4
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Summary A beautiful, strong-willed woman (Hera Hilmar), frustrated by ongoing injustice at home, leaves the United States after meeting Jude, an American doctor (Josh Hartnett) who runs a remote medical mission within the Ottoman Empire — a world both exotic and dangerous, and on the brink of what is about to become the first World War. There, ...
Directed By: Joseph Ruben
Written By: Jeff Stockwell
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
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31% Mixed
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4 Reviews
69% Negative
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
26
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
31% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
69% Negative
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
I’ll admit to a weakness for this sort of thing (which Merchant-Ivory, a couple of decades back, made into elegant art), but even I couldn’t muster up much enthusiasm for this one, a tepid love triangle set in the Ottoman Empire in the early days of World War I.
The by-the-numbers story never achieves its aimed-for grandeur or intensity, and the striking Turkish locations prove far more interesting than the characters.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 235 User Ratings
8.4
81% Positive
191 Ratings
191 Ratings
4% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
14% Negative
34 Ratings
34 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 235 User Ratings
8.4
81% Positive
191 Ratings
191 Ratings
4% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
14% Negative
34 Ratings
34 Ratings
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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What we’re left with is a botched romance saddled with an over-arching, over-reaching message, one that only the Turks will be quick to embrace.
The Ottoman Lieutenant is an overwrought nurse romance merged with a history lesson, a combination that is hard to take as seriously as the film wants to be taken.
Upon taking in the gorgeousness — and it is really something; the production design of this movie, by Luca Tranchino, is exceptional (as is Daniel Aranyó’s cinematography, which shines when he’s shooting in the natural world) —Lillie observes, “It’s like being inside God’s thoughts.”
A limp and lifeless historical melodrama that aspires to be the “Pearl Harbor” of the preamble to World War I and still falls well short of that ignoble goal, Joseph Ruben’s The Ottoman Lieutenant tries to snatch a love triangle from out beneath the Armenian Genocide but fails to get any of the angles right.
Ultimately, this is a movie that’s more about the Ottoman Lieutenant’s Woman than The Ottoman Lieutenant himself – another example of the film’s epic misdirection.
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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Production Company
ES Film,
Eastern Sunrise Films,
Es Film,
Y Production
Release Date Mar 10, 2017
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating R
Tagline In a land on the brink of war the most dangerous place to be is in love.
