Review of The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017) by Matthew D — 23 Jul 2018
A shallow romance that denies the Armenian Genocide.
An overly long melodrama that spends more time romanticizing World War I than acknowledging the Armenian Genocide committed by Turkey. I found the emotional scenes to be contrived as was the love triangle. The Ottoman Lieutenant only works as a romance film. It is a horribly detailed war film and might as well deny the Armenian Genocide by romanticizing a Turkish Lieutenant.
Beautiful scenery, setting, costumes, choreography, and cinematography are sadly not enough to save this movie's historical inaccuracies, bland acting, wasted cast, and terrible writing. All the positives are also feel pointless as this movie is easily an hour too long as well.
Slow, boring, long and worst of all, biased. The Ottoman Lieutenant fails to live up to history, while also building up to a disappointing love story. Skip this one.
This review of The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017) was written by Matthew D on 23 Jul 2018.
The Ottoman Lieutenant has generally received mixed reviews.
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