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Author Topic: Kingdom of Heaven Don Anderson Master Film Handler Posts: 312 From: West Bend, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 05-06-2005 12:32 PM                     Boring. If it wasn't for the tons of violence, I would have fallen asleep. 145 minutes too long. You could easily leave out 2 reels and NOBODY could tell a difference. Beautifully photographed, great costumes, but otherwise Boring as hell.  |  IP: Logged Lee Michael Breese Film Handler Posts: 16 From: Ankeny, Iowa, USA Registered: Mar 2005 posted 05-06-2005 04:17 PM                     I agree with Don the movie was boring and even the violence in it was brief. I didn't see charater development but also I lost intrest in the first 30 minutes.  |  IP: Logged Nicole Halper Film Handler Posts: 47 From: Plano, Texas, USA Registered: Mar 2004 posted 05-06-2005 07:43 PM                        Well... I guess the nice way too put it, is that it could have been a bit more complex. You know it wasn't that straight forward in history. Also could have cut out the last reel...the end dragged on the most. I mean, they lost the city (historical fact..not so much spoiler)...and it should have been over with then. Yes, Orlando Bloom may be nice to look at(haha) but that didn't save the movie for me. In short...Not terrible...and not great...rather mediocre.  |  IP: Logged Michael Barry Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 584 From: Sydney, NSW, Australia Registered: Nov 1999 posted 05-06-2005 09:35 PM                     Nothing great, nothing not-to-great. Just Ridley as usual.  |  IP: Logged Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 05-09-2005 09:56 PM                     This film did not move like Gladiator did, it was decent but there was nothing there like in Gladiator...Orlando Bloom wasn't horrible...but you can really tell he has trouble carrying two hours on his own...even with the strong supporting cast this film just didn't move and have the pace that it should of. I watched this with two friends and one walked out about an hour and half in and I made the other stay, telling him, "Theres only an hour left, the battles will start!" Which they did, making it a little better but not much. All in all a poor outing by Ridley. I give it a out of This film will have a real hard time recouping its $100 million budget domestically  |  IP: Logged Christian Appelt Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 505 From: Frankfurt, Germany Registered: Dec 2001 posted 05-12-2005 05:21 PM                     All scenes with man-to-man combat were laughable. When the fighting starts, the camera starts shaking (get a fearless cinematographer!) and the well-known small-shutter-angle-strobing sets in. I tried to stay awake by remembering better battle scenes like the attacks in THE VIKINGS and THE WAR LORD (minus 199.000 extras, but 200% more fun). Some nice acting, but there should have been a director on the set.  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 05-14-2005 10:41 AM                     I agree with Don: two reels could have been cut. The film would have been far less boring. Problem is, Scott is a Big Director, and no one can (or will) tell him to cut his 'vision.' I'm also tired of films where the main careactor supposably shuns killing, but ends up doing nothing but. Special effects were cool, though.  |  IP: Logged Daniel Burns Film Handler Posts: 52 From: dallas, TX, USA Registered: Jan 2003 posted 05-18-2005 02:50 AM                     quote: Kurt Zupin I watched this with two friends and one walked out about an hour and half in and I made the other stay, telling him, "Theres only an hour left, the battles will start!" Which they did, making it a little better but not much. All in all a poor outing by Ridley. Solaris, that is a movie to walk out of, or set on fire for that matter, but kingdom of heaven is gold in comparison. It was tolerable.  |  IP: Logged Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 05-20-2005 08:06 PM                     I agree it was Tolerable but no where near Gladiator...Just didn't have the holding power  |  IP: Logged

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