Hadik

I can't imagine how could name people themselves at the end as historical expert. Without spoiler I cannot bring here the examples, but except the names-who are real-everything is so funny, compared to real life.

I did not know to cry or laugh when he arrives home, where the children who play at the yard are dressed in very expensive traditional costume as it "usual" for children playing in the dust. So fake hungarian folkore advertisement only for tourist!

Unviable and discredited the whole movie!

Or when his wife rush into the court of the Quenn to blame her as commoners "usually" do, and the Quenn response is quite "normal".

The duels: in the fifties it was an exceptation every action movies that the villain and the hero running up and down on staircase at the final peak and fence, but now ? Of course the Quenn of the enemy at once starts to flirt with the bloody hero, why not if he a Hussar!

If they sometimes would have started to sing it were more amusing.

It is an OK movie with historically accurate costumes.

You will get exactly what you can read in the description of the movie. It depicts the events of the siege against Berlin led by Hadik. Nothing more, nothing less.

The film creates a very good atmosphere, and it is quite fun to watch. The dialogues are full of funny and smart remarks, especially when characters are teasing each other.

However the movie doesn't give us a well-detailed, deep portrayal of the characters and most of the conflicts are solved too soon, therefore they don't seem to be serious enough for us to root for the characters.

It is fun to watch once, but it is not a memorable movie.

So today we HAD to go to the local cinema and watch this movie. Yes we had to, sadly. (Im a student)

I was hoping that it'll be better than the Hungarian historical drama / "educational" series Aranybulla :D But I was wrong. So wrong. The movie's real life story - because it's based on a real life "event"- is interesting in it's own, but not as the battle of Mohács, or the battle of Eger, which has it's own book, but no, we had to go with Hadik. Okay, let's get over it.

The story unfolds from a single battlefield fight to a bigger adventure for the hussars into a complete siege. The movie in the first half is "slow", it introduces us the characters, whom have nothing interesting on their own, they are 2 dimensional good guys and bad guys, there's no one in the middle, and no one has any other goals or traits that can deepen the character itself. The story goes on, we have chase scenes and fight scenes. Okay, that's great, I thought, but the choreography was so bad. They just swinged their swords all over the place. It was so lame and bad.

The movie had so much horse riding scenes. - ofc because there are hussars in there- but the riding scenes were too long and unnecessary. The long camera movement shots gave the movie a bad look, but the cinematography was okay for a Hungarian movie, which had 7.47M USD as an overall budget. But some CGI shots were terrible. I know they had to put it in to flex that they have it, but the CGI was off. The music was off too, it was like they just put there a no copyright medieval soundtrack. The sound design was okay, it had some bad sound effects, but overall I thought that it was enjoyable.

The second part of the movie was a turning point, or the last quarter to be specific, because they put so many jokes in it, -compared to the first half-, and so many badly choreographed fight scenes with a CGI cannonball shot which blew my mind, it was so bad that it was the funniest scene in the movie for me. I know the budget was not too high, but come on, they hadn't had to put it in the movie. So the second half was a little bit funny, a little bit cheesy, and there were unnecessary drama scenes and connections between characters, which were solved quickly and badly.

I give this movie a 3 out of 10. It had good sound design, cinematography (compared to the other Hungarian movies) and the acting was okay, but the CGI, dialogue, and the story itself were not good. It's just another badly made Hungarian historical drama/action/adventure movie.

The cinematography is professional, beautiful and atmospheric... the costumes are beautiful.. But unfortunately this is not enough... if everything else is weak.

The weakest is the acting, directing and scriptwriting!

The story is unfortunately stupid and boring, and there is no real conflict, even though the film's trailer is campaigning about how much danger the hussars are in and what patriotic actions they perform. The purpose of the trip is to bring back a glove... the hussars fight without real emotions and passion... winning a bet, not the real defense of the homeland.

The characters have no real personality, no concrete motivation, characterless characters with whom you can hardly identify. We get bored of them, we don't get excited for them.

The biggest problem with the film is the completely unfilmic, theatrical sound of the actors' speech. When will Hungarian film production finally stop this huge mistake? Professional actors learn speech technique in college... let them stop this mannered, theatrical, terrible style of speech... the role they are playing becomes unreliable if the actor speaks in this mannered, overdramatized style. Those speech teachers who think this is the right acting style should be fired from the college. And those directors and sound engineers who think this kind of voice and acting style is right should be urgently sent for a hearing test.

The text put into the mouths of the characters in the film, their speaking style hurts one's ears because it is emotionless or overdramatized, but by no means a normal speaking voice. And the fact that the actor speaks to the viewer and speaks to the viewer is simply total amateurism.

This film is a shining example of all the problems of Hungarian filmmaking:

• there is no proper scriptwriting, dramaturgy, text, character development, development of motivations,
• the actors' excessive theatrical style of acting and speaking style spoils the entire atmosphere and watchability of the film.

• the professionalism of the director and sound engineer is questionable if these amateurish mistakes are not noticed.

This movie tells a great story and in the same time focusing on the human side just as much. Humble, not playing it over and reflecting on the era without using 21st century superhero movie pieces. If you look at the battle, that's exactly what it meant to be in a battle in those times.

Some, who might be spoiled with the nowadays level of CGI might be sour about this movie, but in my opinion, the story is always shall come first instead of special effects.

Great casting, great play overall.

And majestic, uplifting, respectful to the heritage of being a Huszár. True image of their compassion and dedication.

Well done, we need more!