Invaderbank
The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Dirtylogy
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
Zandra
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
hddu10
This entire series was a painfully obvious attempt to capitalize on the success of Game of Thrones (i.e. super natural fighting scenes, a lot of war, but most of all nudity and sex at every turn) set loosely in the historical context of Marco Polo's descriptions of the Mongol reign of Kublai Khan. But there is almost nothing real or historical about this; it's simply another jewish/atheist hollywood attempt at revising (see: burying) history and writing about people times and cultures that they know absolutely nothing about. The writers are as painfully clueless of the motivations and cultures of the Mongols and Chinese as they are of the Italians and Crusaders. You only need to hear a few lines of dialogue to realize this. And the reality of history is actually FAR more interesting; many of the Mongols in Kublai's court, including his wife, Empress Chabi were Christian. The Crusaders were ALLIES of the Mongols and they both fought together against the muslims/abassids. Kublai was himself friendly with Pope Gregory, and the Westerners did not treat mongols as savages or call them barbarians to their faces. This is all just silly, Hollywood jewish/atheist nonsense meant to arouse the sexually frustrated (or those with a fetish for watching Asian women degraded) and inflame the dimwitted who are looking for anti-Christian propaganda. Just awful. And it's no wonder this was all produced by a sexual predator, Weinstein, since that particular theme makes its rounds throughout every episode. The people behind this mess should be ashamed of themselves. But sadly, this is yet another example that in that particular industry, there is no shame.
urperspective
This is a really great show, with some really good performances, a good story line and keeps you yearning for more. I am at loss as why season three has been cancelled.
dianemo
I've just discovered this series on Netflix and I am thoroughly enjoying it. The sets and costumes are out of this world, showing the wealth and opulence at that time in the Mongol society. I don't understand why Lorenzo Richelmy is being slated for his acting, as I find him to be very expressive and he acts the part very well of a man who can only stand by and listen to what is going on. Benedict Wong is also totally believable as Kublai Khan. The Kung Fu training sequences are terrific between Hundred Eyes and Marco Polo. The martial arts fight scenes including the females are also fabulous. I think the fact that this is real history instead of fantasy makes it more interesting and enjoyable.
Anupam S G
It is indeed a shame that Netflix had to cancel probably the only the historical showpiece it had in its kitty. A showpiece, so much so that it is almost a masterpiece. I am not sure why people here or elsewhere think that this show should not be classified as history genre. Specially when it is an agreed fact amongst historians that even the works of actual Marco Polo could have been closer to fiction than the actual truth. Mind you, this is an Empire(which was the world's largest land empire till the British empire in 1920) from history which has not been touched at all by movie or television. All this is while things like the Roman Empire, WW2 have been beaten up like a dead war horse. With the sheer amount of work that simply went into researching, design, direction and then putting all that together in editing so it all fits beautifully together - it is indeed a shame that this had to end at Season 2.
