Kim Gentes

Epic story and battlescenes; content warnings- constant violence.

The story of a young man who becomes a knight searching for the appeasement of his sins, leads him to join the crusades to the Holy Land (Jerusalem). The story is not as epic as the battle scenes, but it hangs together well enough to warrant you paying full price at the theatres. The moral lessons trying to be taught here are a little too progressive for the timeframe of the story, which erodes the integrity of the story. Contrasted to other moral teaching movies, Kingdom of Heaven doesn't veil anything in subtly. A good film for wasting an evening with some epic battlescenes. Bloom is not near as convincing here as Russell Crowe was in Ridley Scott's other epic historical piece Gladiator, but the effects and directing are memorable.