Roger Churchill

This was a horribly disappointing movie, the overwhelming, constant vulgarity and foulness of the dialogue overshadowed what was already a terribly weak storyline. This movie did a horrible disservice to the legacy of the “X-Men” series. If “Charles” of the original X-Men were to see this F-bomb laced attempt at parody, I’m sure he would have walked out. I should have. It was sad and disappointing to see the Wolverine character dragged down into the dregs of this third rate verbal porn show. What I can say about this movie, is that it’s $$ and 2 hours of my life that I’ll never get back. DO NOT TAKE YOUR CHILDREN TO SEE, OR ALLOW YOUR CHILDREN TO SEE THIS MOVIE! IT IS TERRIBLE AT EVERY POSSIBLE LEVEL.

While the story was engaging and well written, in some ways this series was historically inaccurate and misleading especially in describing the conquest of Constantinople by Saladin. The Muslim Janissaries conducted a mass slaughter of EVERYONE (estimated at over 10,000 people) from Constantinople that had sought sanctuary in the church - nuns, priests, innocent women and children were brutally slain by the bloodthirsty invaders. This is a well documented historical fact of which there is no question. And yet, at the end of this TV series Sultan Mehmet is shown quietly and commandingly striding through the former church, saying it’s going to become a mosque. Given the incredible detail about the stages of the siege of Constantinople, which was fascinating and well done, the omission of the slaughter in the Hagia Sophia is a glaring omission that is certainly intentional. There is no reference to the slaughter that occurred there. This is a glaring omission of historical fact, and hides the brutality of Muslim expansionism at that time. The Crusaders of course could be and were at times equally as barbaric - or worse - but we haven’t had a historically revisionist TV series mis-portraying their barbarism, as we have here. A good TV show...not good history.