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[movie] Kingdom Of Heaven - Page 2

I found a review of CNN that exactly details what I was trying to say:

"Bloom has fine soft features, a liltingly ''literate'' accent and the passive, neutral demeanor of a page boy impersonating a warrior. Just about everybody who lays eyes on him recognizes Balian as his father's son, yet how can they tell? Liam Neeson is full of dark fire, but Bloom is like invisible ink on screen."

"When you hire Ridley Scott to direct an oversize medieval war movie, there's one thing you needn't worry about: The money will be there on screen. Yet as I watched "Kingdom of Heaven," a thought -- a question -- opened up in front of me like a dramatic-existential abyss: Who, or what, exactly was I rooting for? "

"The Muslims, led by the fierce and honorable desert warrior Saladin (Ghassan Massoud), have ample motive for their aggression: A band of Christian soldiers struck them first. (OK, they want Jerusalem back as well.) So God be with the Muslims!

You must understand, however, that the Christians didn't really mean it -- at least, not the devout mass led by Balian, the valiant knight whose dream is to preserve the city as a ''kingdom of Heaven,'' a multiculti paradise where Christians, Muslims and Jews can all live and worship together. The temples and the shrines mean nothing to him, at least compared with the innocent civilians inside. So God be with the Christians, too!"

https://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/04/ew.mov.kingdom/

Heaven Kingdom movie

There have been very few movies made of this nature that I did not like, and I'm sad to say this was one of them. My fiance and I sat down to watch it this past weekend, and couldn't make it through the whole thing. We watched most of it, and then had to pause it to go eat, and couldn't bring ourselves to turn it back on. I just found the movie rather bland.

The acting was superb in it. Liam Neeson did an amazing job with his character, as he always does. Orlando Bloom did well for his character. I'm not a huge Bloom fan. I thought he did wonderful in LOTR and Pirates of the Caribbean, but I don't think this movie was his forte.