Fortunately, I saw the director's cut of this movie
Kingdom of Heaven begins as an epic about honor, tolerance, and religious balance, but ends as if the Crusaders left Jerusalem with "dignity" to the tune of dramatic music and elegant negotiations. The truth? No. Jerusalem was not surrendered in an idealized scene with an elegant knight and a wise mujahid shaking hands... It was surrendered after Saladin crushed the Crusader army in the Battle of Hattin and wiped them off…
A war movie, but with a peaceful heart. Mel Gibson brings back the magic of powerful directing, and delivers a great story - a soldier who refuses to carry a gun, but saves lives in the midst of hell.
The battles are shockingly gory, but in the midst of the horror, there is a rare humanity. Andrew Garfield gives a pure and moving performance.
Bloody, inspiring, and Andrew Garfield at his best.
Every time I watch it, I feel like I'm watching it for the first time. I think almost everything has been said about this movie by now. But, I can still tell you what this masterpiece means to me. For me, this is perhaps one of the most important movies ever made, because it questions our humanity in relation to the universe. Whether it's our ability to love, to think, to persevere, to walk into the unknown. We are explorers,…
