Kingdom of Heaven
The movie centers on Balian, a young Frenchman in Medieval Jerusalem during the Crusades, who, having lost everything, finds redemption in a heroic fight against overwhelming forces to defend the city and its people.
7 June 1952, Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
1970, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
13 January 1977, Canterbury, Kent, England, UK
18 January 1936, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
10 September 1955, San Jose, Costa Rica
9 August 1973, Elgin, Moray, Scotland, UK
1 December 1970, Hämeenlinna, Finland
11 November 1964, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
October 10, 2014
Even with the addition of 45 minutes of new footage, Sir Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven remains a rather uneventful epic with a story that fails to engage.
April 29, 2009
Just another sword and sandal epic...
May 06, 2005
Since we barely know what's at stake -- we're too confused and bored to care -- all this fighting means nothing to us, and yet Scott still hopes to rev us up with it.
July 10, 2007
... an extraordinary work of art, a plea for religious tolerance that works because of sheer filmmaking prowess and good, old-fashioned storytelling. (Director's Cut)
May 06, 2005
An epic about Christian crusaders who happen to be liberal humanists willing to die for the sake of religious tolerance. That's just ... weird.
May 06, 2005
Is Orlando Bloom enough of a star to sustain a $100 million costume drama? The answer turns out to be yes.
May 06, 2005
Mostly uninvolving; a movie you admire for its craft rather than enjoying for its passion.
May 06, 2005
Considerably more ambitious and significantly less satisfying than Gladiator.
June 20, 2009
Cinema's least potent leading man, Orlando Bloom, stinks up the screen in Ridley Scott's unsatisfying "epic" about the Crusades...
March 01, 2007
One of the more violent films in recent memory. But maybe the violence serves a purpose-it keeps your mind off the inanities of the plot.
May 06, 2005
As Balian and his people withstand the might of Saladin's fiery projectiles, siege towers and the usual computer-generated swarm of soldiers, it's hard not to think we're really watching The Lord of the Rings IV: Legolas Defends Jerusalem.
February 28, 2008
Kingdom of Heaven is profoundly relevant for our troubled times.
