Kingdom of Heaven: Director's Cut by the DVD Man

Kingdom of Heaven is a Ridley Scott epic movie. It's one of those movies that I usually see in the movie theater and I did when it was released. It's got some humongous set piece battle scenes that really seem like there are 400,000 real horses galloping across the desert and hundreds of giant fireballs getting flung by giant trebuchets into the castle walls of Old Jerusalem.

It's the story of the last Christian King of Jerusalem with the final battle vs. Saladin, so it's got some historical basis, which I like and this was the Director's Cut, so there were some extra scenes that helped explain some of the sub-plots that were overwhelmed by the big action in the theatrical release. I had the sound cranked up, so those horses and fireballs were shaking the Dreamland Theater. Orlando Bloom, Liam Neeson, Jeremy Irons and Eva Green keep the plot moving. Orlando is kind of a modern day peacemaker and environmentalist who has to turn into a warrior to save the people and he's got a couple of excellent villians in Brendan Gleeson & David Thewlis who chew up the whole middle east and generally causing trouble.

Everyone gets what they deserve, no Franks, but that's to be expected in a movie set in the 1100's. I highly recommend Kingdom of Heaven: Director's Cut.