The Ottoman Lieutenant

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The Ottoman Lieutenant

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Released Mar 10, 2017

1h 50m

History

Drama

War

Romance

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A strong-willed woman, frustrated by ongoing injustice at home, leaves the United States after meeting Jude, an American doctor who runs a remote medical mission within the Ottoman Empire -- a world both exotic and dangerous, and on the brink of what is about to become the first World War. There, she finds her loyalty tested to both Jude and the mission's founder when she falls in love with their perceived enemy, a lieutenant in the Ottoman Imperial Army.

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Roxana Hadadi

Punch Drunk Critics

An enlightening film could be made about the Ottoman Empire in the days before World War I, that particular place at that particular time, but The Ottoman Lieutenant isn't it.

Rated: 2/5

Mar 13, 2017

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Gary M. Kramer

Salon.com

"The Ottoman Lieutenant" is all over the map in terms of tone, genre and acting styles.

Mar 10, 2017

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Richard Roeper

Chicago Sun-Times

We can smell the rancid coats of paint on this attempt to whitewash history.

Rated: 1/4

Mar 10, 2017

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Emilie Black

Cinema Crazed

it has some issues with the historical side of its story but the romance is not bad and not overly sweet. It works on the surface as a romance film and looks stunning while doing so.

Rated: 3/5

Apr 17, 2020

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

The film collapses underneath the weight of its perilously hokey clichés and renders itself obsolete.

Rated: 1.5/5

Oct 5, 2019

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Sean Mulvihill

FanboyNation.com

I guess the lesson of The Ottoman Lieutenant is simple: If you're gonna make a shameful piece of revisionist propaganda, at least make it entertaining.

Rated: 1/5

Oct 31, 2018

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John T

Propaganda infested romanticized portrayal of a false relationship between the Ottoman Empire and American culture and the horrendous demonization of the Armenian people are all much too big of a factor for me to rate this any higher than half a star. Acting is subpar and the historical accuracy of this film failed in many ways.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

09/25/23

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George B

Poor Turkish propaganda service, attempt to rewrite history, to invert the perpetrator with victim. Paid by the Turkish government. It is well know in history, how Ottomans massacred the Armenians, no matter how hard they try to fake history, it will not work. Unfortunately they had used this propaganda technique on their own you g generation, it will only perpetuate the hateful ideas and the killing. No to propaganda movie, it is worst than the old communist propaganda movies. No to hate, agression, massacres.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

09/25/23

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isla s

This film features some impressive cinematography, with foreign landscapes shown off via aerial photography. There are some good battle scenes too but the basic plot was a little bland. I thought it was no better than average really, overall.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Scott R

If there was a movie here I must have missed it. Probably because I fell asleep.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

07/13/22

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Audience Member

I'm so annoyed I wasted my time waiting for this movie to get better. There's no passion, no character, no creativity, no good plot. It's like a WWI era Twilight plot but worse acting and less chemistry, while whitewashing the brutal Armenian genocide. The lead males would maybe be OK if it weren't for the bad, uninteresting script. I don't know who the heck casted the lead actress, but she brings nothing to the character. She might as well be Bella Swan: no personality or facial expressions. I could go on, but you get the gist.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/19/23

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Audience Member

I liked it...I liked the actors, especially the male and female lead.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/24/23

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A strong-willed woman, frustrated by ongoing injustice at home, leaves the United States after meeting Jude, an American doctor who runs a remote medical mission within the Ottoman Empire -- a world both exotic and dangerous, and on the brink of what is about to become the first World War. There, she finds her loyalty tested to both Jude and the mission's founder when she falls in love with their perceived enemy, a lieutenant in the Ottoman Imperial Army.

Director: Joseph Ruben
Producer: Stephen Joel Brown, Alinur Velidedeoglu, Gunes Celikcan, Merve Zorlu, Yusuf Esenkal, Serdar Ogretici
Screenwriter: Jeff Stockwell
Distributor: Paladin
Production Co: Y Production, Eastern Sunrise Films
Rating: R (Some War Violence)
Genre: History, Drama, War, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 10, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 10, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $149.8K
Runtime: 1h 50m

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