This is a $7 movie.
With recent increase in prices of cinema tickets, there is new meaning to watching movies. More accurately put, we need to know whether the movie is worth us coughing out ten dollars to watch.
Kingdom of heaven was not such a movie. It was not unenjoyable, Orlando Bloom did well as an angst filled Knight who goes on to save the lives of thousands. And the movie was cleverly scripted such as to portray a balanced view of the results of Muslim and Christian fanaticism at that time.
However, my beef with it is that it was a too slow for a Ridley Scott piece. There were times where you just wanted to push them to get off the drama and get on with the action. There should have been more character development for the lead actress as well, rather than her having no lines for much of the latter part of the movie - and hence all the camera shots were of her looking forlornly into the distance with her kohl-lined eyes.
Well, its not a waste of your time, but watch it on a weeknight.
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