HONEST REVIEW FROM A TURKISH GUY

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OK LETS START WITH AN HONEST REVIEW :
I noticed like many others (especially NON Turks)
That Turks rate almost all Turkish Movies or Series with an high score out of Nationalisme. This is IMDB and by giving an high score out of Turkish nationalism will not reflect the true score so we need to stop that as it gives people false expectations and make them turn away from other or future Turkish series/movies!!

LETS GET STARTED WITH MY REVIEW ON THIS SERIES :
BÖRÜ tells the story of an elite special ops team and
It starts in 2014 and it is based on true actual events that happend in Turkey and continues to 2016 (Coup)
The army / justice / police are being infiltrated by Gülenists ( a group who is responsible for the failed coup in 2016 ). Quickly true patriots of the Elite team BÖRÜ finds this out and they are the only ones who are not infiltrated and so they become one of the last strongholds that Gülenists tries to infiltrate. This same team does not only face the PKK and Gülenists but also ISIS who is also responsible for many terror attacks in Turkey.

I loved this series because its based on a true story and as a Turkish man I am ofcourse familiar with what happend in my country. So I believe it gives an accurate image of these unfortunate but true events.
Many foreigners are most likely not aware of this so it could be boring for them to watch this show. Unless you have did some research on these events, because if you are aware of these events then you will be able to follow the show accurately with regards to detail.

The story line is great in my opinion, what I also love is that each episode starts with an quote of important famous Turkish figures out of the history.
But like always Turkish series/movies especially in action have poor CGI/SPECIAL EFFECTS.
The acting however is great and the actors play their characters well. Especially the Chief and the 2 Presidents. The fighting /shooting scenes are not great at all but definetly not the worst and I consider it watchable, if you can too then give this series a chance. Dialoage could have also been better but its definetly not bad at all ! But do not use the voice overs as the translation is not the best in my opinion subtitles would be more accurate but then again most English speaking natives do not like to watch films with subs, Ive been told :))
So do not expect an Hollywood quality special effects with an high budget. But also keep in mind that this is the first Turkish Netflix Original series ever. So the Turkish directors etc they still need to do some homework on how to improve it. But I expect it will be better in future projects.

So if you are familiar or want to be familar with the recent events that happend in Turkey and if you can watch these series without expecting an high budget Hollywood style series, I definetly would advise you to watch it. It starts slow but then again it only has 6 episodes and the final episode made the series well worth to watch. This serie will be continued with an Cinema Movie and I really hope that the movie will be of an higher budget with better effects and action scenes. I would give this show a 7 out of 10 normally but as I was familiar with these true events I gave it an 8. Because this show does portray these events in an accurate way.

score 8/10

fbcosmetics 11 January 2019

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw4576006/