Kingdom of Heaven Critic Reviews
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Based upon 16 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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A mostly lumbering, occasionally rousing epic that walks a bizarre line between historical fact and Hollywood wishful thinking.Read the full review
Better than "Gladiator" -- deeper, more thoughtful, more about human motivation and less about action.Read the full review
Scott, working from a script by William Monahan, is so busy balancing our sympathies, making sure no one gets offended, that he has made a pageant of war that would have gotten a thumbs-up from Eleanor Roosevelt.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
Kingdom of Heaven may have problems, but it delivers.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
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
I'd have a lot more respect for Scott if he were actually the virtuoso he pretends to be. "Gladiator" had lousy, disjunctive action, and Kingdom of Heaven is even more maladroit.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
Scott's ravishing visual style, characterized by a fetishistic attention to surface detail and unrelenting beauty, can work wonders with big subjects, but this is also a director who needs actors powerful enough to shoulder narrative and emotional extremes.Read the full review
