Mahsun Kirmizigul, apparently a good cinema follower, has made 3 collages in disguise of films so far, and this is the last ring in the chain. I call them collages as the simple mindedness of his scripts, the shallowness of his characters and the story lines all lack depth and are geared towards the same ideal: capitalizing on a hot topic without any attention paid or merit put into the work itself. In 'White Angel' Mahsun took advantage of issue of elderly, in 'I saw the Sun' he tried to collage together bits and pieces from the films of Yilmaz Guney and Tunc Okan to tackle the issue of forced immigration and the what so called 'Kurdish Issue'. The same singer turned writer/director and capitalist had joined in the protests towards the remarks of Ahmet Kaya during a awards ceremony where all he said was 'I am gonna shot a video to a Kurdish song and I know there are courageous people out there shot and view it'. Mahsun, also a Kurd but a self denying Kurd until recently when pressure on Kurds and Kurdish was lifted, joined into protest Kaya's remark. Yet few years later he was in the forefront of making money off lift of ban of Kurdish. Currently the hottest topic around the globe is Islamic terrorism vs peaceful nature of Islam and of course Mahsun just had to make a movie about this. Again the storyline is so shallow that I felt embarrassed as a film-goer, secondly acting couldn't be worse and the use of such actors as Danny Glover in unnecessary ways was just mind numbing (and how did danny glover said yes to this picture after reading the script is my million dollar question), thirdly the movie is nothing more than a salud to one of Turkey's controversial religious leaders who is loved by millions but also feared by millions too. And in this last point is the totality of the movie Five Minarets In New York: it never manages to become a story or a good tale, it is from the finish to the end a product, a commercial. The cinematography, effects and such are tremendously well made but then again all that just depends on having the money. Mahsun is not an artist but rather a calculating machine lacking intellectual depth and creativity. I am sure one of his next projects will be Holocaust through the eyes of a 1940s Muslim politician (or something) played by, of course him.