Review of The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017) by David Ehrlich for indieWire — 09 Mar 2017
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.
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This review of The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017) was written by David Ehrlich and published by indieWire on 09 Mar 2017.
The Ottoman Lieutenant has generally received mixed reviews.
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