Kingdom of Heaven Critic Reviews

Better than "Gladiator" -- deeper, more thoughtful, more about human motivation and less about action.Read the full review

Scott and company have gotten so accomplished at re-creating history that the results have a welcome offhanded quality, making them spectacular without seeming to be showing off.Read the full review

Genuinely spectacular and historically quite respectable, Ridley Scott's latest epic is at its strongest in conveying the savagery spawned by fanaticism.Read the full review

Fulfills the requirements of grand-scale moviemaking while serving as a timely reminder that in the conflict between Christianity and Islam it was the Christians who picked the first fight.Read the full review

Full of astonishments, not the least of which are its ideas.Read the full review

Screenwriter William Monahan has fashioned an intelligent and highly topical epic. Director Ridley Scott has brought it home with banners flying.Read the full review

Odd as it is to say, Kingdom of Heaven loses its momentum the more Balian gets religion.Read the full review

Kingdom of Heaven may have problems, but it delivers.Read the full review

Massoud plays Saladin magnetically, and his arrival only illustrates how many opportunities Kingdom misses. Another, better movie would have made him the focus.Read the full review