Let me lay out this review chronologically. This movie has about 3 minutes of opening credits, all on a black screen. My guess is that this was because after 3 hours of sitting in the theater, no one would spend a second watching the end credits. Next there is a battle scene. These scenes are very poorly choreographed. Half the time the soldiers don't know what they're doing, and they stumble around the battlefield clanking swords at random times. The sound editing here is no better than a third-rate B movie. The sound of shields clanking plays over a an elephants trumpet, and the trumpet plays over the battle. Speaking of the elephants, they were all baby Asian elephants with no tusks. It looks slightly strange to see a soldier who is taller than his elephant.

The movie is a lesson in "how many sub-plots can we pack in?" and this results in a 3+ hour running time, that will leave you either asleep or unconscious by the end. Most of the plots do not contribute to the main theme at all, and are resolved by the first half of the movie. Then, a new set of minor plots take over. You could easily cut 1 and a half hours from this movie and not miss a thing.

Because of all these glaring issues, I could not even focus on the love story in the movie. All in all, this is an exercise in boredom and tediousness, and I do not recommend it.