Kingdom Of Heaven

Year: 2005

Grade: D

Country: USA

Director: Scott

Review

a dull, boring, expansive opus which may be the perfect example of the latest threat to hollywood. in the early 60s a series of bad, very large productions severely damaged the studio system in hollywood, creating the perfect environment for the auteur movement of the 70s. if hollywood has many more films like this, alexander, troy, etc. then we might have a similar problem on our hands soon enough. it’s not that the production is bad – the sets, the on location shooting, and the costumes are all good. it’s just that the fundamentals of filmmaking aren’t there. to start, it’s basically a more religious version of El Cid. to compound the unoriginality of it is the fact that it’s not very well acted, the story is fairly boring and not told in a particularly interesting way.

Watched in theater