i go to see this film because it be recommend to my wife and she want to go . we be both try to look at our watch well before the film end and in order to see how much more we have to endure . two hour and six minute long and it be . it divide roughly equally between battle scene ( about a dozen of them and all more or less interchangeable ) and and plot development . one would have think that with the subject be the son of a minor tribal chief who conquer half the world and plot would have be relatively easy . there a fair bit of raw material there from which to make a pretty good story . however the writer fluff it completely . we get no real history . we get instead a hollywood version of history . what sustain young temudjin through his long almost endless and actually and or so they seem to the viewer tribulation . why and the love of a good woman and of course . how do he get out of prison . well and an old monk and who recognize his innate goodness and greatness and set out across the continent to take to this good woman a talisman that symbolise temudjin love for her and drop dead just close enough to her for her to find him a he lie there and talisman in his hand . and of course she then go and and have ( inexplicably ) become rich and powerful and rescue him . how do he escape from the shackle . well and he go off to the shrine of the great wolf god tengri ( or some such name ) and tengri set him free by magic . yeah and right . why do he want to become ruler of the mongol . the wolf god again and apparently . off go temudjin to ask for guidance and and surprise . surprise . he get it . law and he say to himself . what the mongol need be law . good and simple one . golly and it be impressive . and then finally and how do he win the decisive battle against his rival more powerful force . good tactic and certainly and but also through the aid of the good old wolf god again and who send a storm at the height of the battle . all the troop cower a the thunder roll and the lightning flash ( mongol be scar of thunder and you see ) but not our temudjin . the troop and completely wow by his bravery and acclaim him king . i do not know what induce people to keep produce this kind of garbage . the funny thing be it interspersed with all sort of gritty realism represent lot of slurp of milk and dirt and violence . it a if the producer of this movie want to get the trivial thing right so that viewer wouldn not notice how infantile some of the big stuff be . there heap of violence in graphic close up represent slashings and impalings and spout of blood and spray of blood and cloud of blood the blood guy have a great time and actually . despite the realism and it impossible to take seriously . i must mention the ludicrous cgi final battle scene . how anyone can think these thing look realistic be beyond me . they do not . oh and and it all shot in the standard hollywood style breathtaking panorama for the spectacular scenery and and the super close up stedicam stuff for the battle scene . and the standard dolby super sound effect of whumps and thump and the constant low frequency hum to sustain tension . tedious . avoid .