Mongol, a review

Rico went with the ladyfriend to see Mongol. (She even liked it, in spite of the bloody bits; this is about warfare in the 1100s after all. Warning: there's violence and blood in the trailer. Go here to pick one if this one doesn't play for you.)
Run, do not walk, to see it. (Or you can wait for it to come out on DVD, of course. Still worth it.)
Two hours and six minutes of continuous barbaric splendor. And a pretty good movie, too.
Made in Russia with a mixed bag of actors (Japanese, Mongolian, Chinese, and who knows what), it's subtitled, of course. It sounds like they're speaking Mongol, rather than Russian, which was interesting. (And hard, I'm sure, on the non-native speakers.)
It's apparently the first of an intended trilogy; it's currently unknown whether Sergei Bodrov will get to make the other two, but Rico hopes so. (Rico thinks they should have had him do the Lord of the Rings; many scenes look like what Rico always envisioned, though Bodrov got to do it with live actors instead of that animation crap. Shooting it live action was so much more effective, and the steppes they used as location look so much like what Rico always thought Rohan would've looked like...)

Rico says it's a good one, and you should go see it while you can.