The movie follows the story of two Turks on a mission from the Sultan to deliver a diamond to the American president as a sign of good faith and strong ties. It also is a story within a story as the former is being told by what seems like a con-man trying to sell a worthless pair of boots to a rich collector, and the film's story is a made up by the con-man to authenticate the boots.
The movie itself too, unfortunately, gives the feeling that it was made up on the spot by a half witted con-man, not Turkey's leading comedian and definitely not a filmmaker! Cem Yilmaz is the name that made smart comedy and stand up popular in Turkey, he is both the Robbie Williams and Ricky Gervais of Turkey. Mirroring the success of his 10 year long stand up career, his earlier films 'Everything will be Beautiful' and GORA were also hugely successful both in terms of box office and the audience response. Although GORA and its follow up AROG are high budgeted Scare Movie equivalents of Turkey, they too had certain quality in terms of their comedy as time, energy and brains were put in to their scripts, even though AROG was a huge disappointment in terms of its comedy.
Yahsi Batı, however, is a new low not only in Mr. Yilmaz's filmography but that of Turkish comedy! The movie is hardly comedic, save two scenes (one of being robbed the other where the characters meet the heroin of the movie), its story line is beyond obvious and it manages to be boring in every sense of the word after 20 minutes. Interestingly enough after 20 minutes the movie shows its true intentions: being the longest and most expensive Cola Turca commercial EVER! Let me put it this way, the main sponsor, Cola Turca has spend enough money on the movie to make its brand more obvious and in your face than Ipod was in Blade 3!
I will not even bother to discuss this commercial as a film, it lacks everything from story line to dialog to acting to editing. What it has is plenty swear words, partial nudity, good picture quality and Mr Yilmaz's hard to hate face. But I must admit, I started hating that childish face of his after 2.5 hours stolen from my life.
Do yourselves a favor: STAY AWAY from this commercial!
The movie itself too, unfortunately, gives the feeling that it was made up on the spot by a half witted con-man, not Turkey's leading comedian and definitely not a filmmaker! Cem Yilmaz is the name that made smart comedy and stand up popular in Turkey, he is both the Robbie Williams and Ricky Gervais of Turkey. Mirroring the success of his 10 year long stand up career, his earlier films 'Everything will be Beautiful' and GORA were also hugely successful both in terms of box office and the audience response. Although GORA and its follow up AROG are high budgeted Scare Movie equivalents of Turkey, they too had certain quality in terms of their comedy as time, energy and brains were put in to their scripts, even though AROG was a huge disappointment in terms of its comedy.
Yahsi Batı, however, is a new low not only in Mr. Yilmaz's filmography but that of Turkish comedy! The movie is hardly comedic, save two scenes (one of being robbed the other where the characters meet the heroin of the movie), its story line is beyond obvious and it manages to be boring in every sense of the word after 20 minutes. Interestingly enough after 20 minutes the movie shows its true intentions: being the longest and most expensive Cola Turca commercial EVER! Let me put it this way, the main sponsor, Cola Turca has spend enough money on the movie to make its brand more obvious and in your face than Ipod was in Blade 3!
I will not even bother to discuss this commercial as a film, it lacks everything from story line to dialog to acting to editing. What it has is plenty swear words, partial nudity, good picture quality and Mr Yilmaz's hard to hate face. But I must admit, I started hating that childish face of his after 2.5 hours stolen from my life.
Do yourselves a favor: STAY AWAY from this commercial!