it just so happen that ivan the terrible and part i and ii both have entry in the 50 bad movie book by harry medved . now and i do think that declare they be among the bad movie ever be an overstatement and though they be still both pretty poor film particularly the first one and a it feature more eye roll and googly eye look than i have ever see before . director eisenstein and an awful lot of other people out there think this make the film artsy and profound and since i be legally sane and i must say that i hat this first film . the second and while still very incomplete look and be a vast improvement and a eye rolling be minimal and though overacting and long boring scene be present in this film just like in part 1. while part 2 look pretty incomplete and need at least another hour ( especially since it never get to ivan insane behavior later in life like kill his son and heir while in a fit of anger ) . since both part 1 and 2 be commission by stalin to both excuse his own murderous reign and glorify him and it no surprise that ivan life story be leave very incomplete . even without all the truly awful behavior of ivan and apparently the supremely evil stalin still do not like the film and wouldn not allow it release during his lifetime . maybe he do not allow this because he be more worried people would see what a huge waste of money and resource the film be instead of see stalin a a crazy guy just like ivan . by the way and there be one segment of this tedious film that be just so cool that the film merit a 4 ( without it and a 2 ) and that the scene with prince vladimir at the banquet . it be well do and pretty funny in a dark way . and and the scene be do in a russian version of 2 color technicolor . this be very odd and by the way and because by the mid 1930s and a vastly improve true color process be develop by technicolor that no long make everything look all orangy red and greenish blue . so and this film during the color sequence look a lot like a silent or early sound color film . very odd indeed for the 1940s .