The Horde

A Moving Faith Based Drama Completely Misrepresented As An Action Packed Historical Epic
Note: The DVD has two versions to choose from on the opening menu. The English Language version or the original version in Russian and Mongolian with English subtitles. I watched the original subtitled version, so I can't speak to the quality of the dub on the English version track. I personally hate dubbing!

I'm firmly convinced that whoever marketed and prepared the DVD release of the Russian film "The Horde" had never seen it and didn't have ANY idea what it was about. That's the only logical explanation that I can come up with for the bland and meaningless description used on the back of the DVD and repeated here under Editorial Review. This is what it says: "1357. Half of the Eastern world is controlled by the savage Golden Horde. While the West waits in fear, a bloody battle erupts inside the Khan dynasty, threatening the existence of the most powerful empire on earth." From this vague tidbit, you might expect a historical action epic. That's clearly what someone...

A Moving Faith Based Drama Completely Misrepresented As An Action Packed Historical Epic
Note: The DVD has two versions to choose from on the opening menu. The English Language version or the original version in Russian and Mongolian with English subtitles. I watched the original subtitled version, so I can't speak to the quality of the dub on the English version track. I personally hate dubbing!

I'm firmly convinced that whoever marketed and prepared the DVD release of the Russian film "The Horde" had never seen it and didn't have ANY idea what it was about. That's the only logical explanation that I can come up with for the bland and meaningless description used on the back of the DVD and repeated here under Editorial Review. This is what it says: "1357. Half of the Eastern world is controlled by the savage Golden Horde. While the West waits in fear, a bloody battle erupts inside the Khan dynasty, threatening the existence of the most powerful empire on earth." From this vague tidbit, you might expect a historical action epic. That's clearly what...

Horrible
The Horde was painfully disjunctive and hard to follow. The saga was long and unsatisfying although some of the scenery was good.

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