2005 · action · drama · history
Kingdom of Heaven
Directed by Ridley Scott2h 24m2005
After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.
Our read: Kingdom of Heaven (2005) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded action · drama · history entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured action / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- brisk
- intense
- epic-stakes
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