Kingdom of Heaven

Pros: some of the action
Cons: the story, weak characters, disconnected plot structure

After the success of Gladiator, Ridley Scott seemed to have a good handle on time period films taking place back before technology took over the way wars are fought. Given a second chance to put his knowledge on display, Scott Directed and Produced ...

Pros: Bloom, Green, Massoud, Neeson, Irons, Gleeson, story, direction
Cons: Scott has created more exciting movies

Jerusalem is a holy city for three major religions. For some two centuries, Christian and Muslim men fought to lay exclusive claim to this holy land during the period known as the Crusades. Others looked at the bigger world picture and decided to defend ...

Pros: Story, supporting cast, moral
Cons: Bloom weak in lead, score sounds recycled

Kingdom of Heaven (2005) Ridley Scott has made a passel of excellent movies and the Kingdom of Heaven is another in that long line that began with Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma and Louise, Gladiator, and continued through many more until ...

Pros: Gleeson, Irons, Neeson, Bloom (most of the time), some parts of the script...
Cons: ... Eva Green, uninvolving characters...

Kingdom of Heaven is a rather interesting film from Director Ridley Scott, but ultimately I found it rather uninspiring. It follows the journey of a young Blacksmith named Balian (Orlando Bloom), who turns out to be a Crusader Knight’s ...

Pros: Director's Cut = great story, beautiful cinematography, good acting, great effects
Cons: Theatrical Cut = mediocre story, beautiful cinematography, lackluster acting, great effects

I don’t remember it, but apparently there was some pretty big controversy over Director Ridley Scott’s epic about the Crusades, Kingdom of Heaven. With the success of other historical dramas, Scott planned an epic on the Crusades. ...

Pros: Solid sets, Orlando Bloom
Cons: Transitions, why does Liam Neesin keep playing the same character?

The biggest problem with Kingdom of Heaven isn't an odd one. Some might point out that Orlando Bloom isn't exactly the most hefty action hero around and they would be right. However he is coming along fairly well. Granted portraying a blacksmith ...

Pros: visually stunning, dramatic, with great performances and a top-shelf script
Cons: long, surprisingly short on action and sex, complicated resolutions

This is a beautifully written, well-directed film - with great performances and a story worth telling. After 9/11, it had looked like we'd be up to our gills in fascist cinema - all a series of ruminations on the joys of revenge and shadow fights with ...

Pros: Great cast, some nice visual effects
Cons: Lackluster ending, no heroics, lacks coolness

Kingdom of Heaven is a medieval epic about the Holy Crusades. It stars Orlando Bloom and is directed by Ridley Scott, who previously helmed Gladiator and Black Hawk Down. With all the cast and crew involved, I expected this to be a ...

Pros: Scenery and cinematography
Cons: Incredibly long speeches that amount to nothing but a yawn or three

I kind of have strong feelings about this one or I wouldn't be the 35th person to review it. Old Jerusalem had a siege, ee-ei-ee-ei-oh; with a fight fight here and a speech speech there, her a speech here a fight every where a speech fight ...

Pros: Nice story
Cons: Little history

The story line tells of a man who was a lord in the Levant who returns to France for his long lost son, brings him to Jerusalem where the father dies, the son takes his place, and Jerusalem falls to Sala-al-din, and the people are saved by the son's ...

Pros: Cinematography
Cons: Almost everything else.

The Crusades, that oft-talked about but little understood and never historically heeded chapter in the development of not only Western Civilization but of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, is but a ill-developed backdrop to this messy movie call ...

Pros: The fight scenes.
Cons: The inner story.

The whole time I was watching Kingdom of Heaven I kept thinking back to Gladiator and how simple the story line and the lead actor’s portrayal were in that watershed film, compared to Kingdom. Ridley Scott struck Oscar Pay Dirt ...

Pros: The odd visual effect or two
Cons: Plot, acting, direction, overly long, boring

The action / epic / war genre isn’t one I delve into very often. They appeal to guys because they’ve got blood and fighting, and they often appeal to girls because of some "pretty boy" actor in the lead role. Brad Pitt in Troy, for example, or ...

Pros: Everything!!!!!
Cons: Too long for the incontinent.

Make no mistake; Kingdom of Heaven is an incredible movie. True, it may not, as some say, be factually accurate to what we know of the crusades but what we know isn’t very precise. There were no real chroniclers of the events that unfolded. What ...

Pros: Ghassan Massoud; Liam Neeson; Orlando Bloom sometimes; first rate production and war sequences
Cons: Orlando Bloom sometimes; Eva Green's thankless role; anti war message lost in story shuffle

Battle is imminent. Balian (Orlando Bloom) looks out into the dark desert night. In the distance he sees flashes of light. Firebombs have been launched, hurtling toward the fortified walls (And directly at the screen) of Jerusalem like cannonball ...