Director’s cut holds as one of Scott’s best. Balanced approach to this tense historical event, portraying Muslims as three-dimensional and not Hollywood’s classic route of stereotypes. Overall, well-acted, well-directed, with scale and drama throughout.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 18, 2024

Storytelling is sacrificed for spectacle, resulting in something breathtakingly epic yet partially unsatisfying and unfortunately forgettable.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 24, 2021

The ballistic bloodletting of the battle for Jerusalem is indeed awe-inspiring, but Scott also finds some space inside such heavy, hellish traffic to humanise the conflict.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 30, 2020

Even with the addition of 45 minutes of new footage, Sir Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven remains a rather uneventful epic with a story that fails to engage.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 10, 2014

Cinema's least potent leading man, Orlando Bloom, stinks up the screen in Ridley Scott's unsatisfying "epic" about the Crusades...

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 20, 2009

Just another sword and sandal epic...

| Apr 29, 2009

Kingdom of Heaven is profoundly relevant for our troubled times.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 28, 2008

The miscasting of the lightweight Bloom proves fatal: instead of galvanizing this epic, he sucks the energy out of it.

| Nov 1, 2007

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 14, 2007

... an extraordinary work of art, a plea for religious tolerance that works because of sheer filmmaking prowess and good, old-fashioned storytelling. (Director's Cut)

| Jul 10, 2007

One of the more violent films in recent memory. But maybe the violence serves a purpose-it keeps your mind off the inanities of the plot.

| Mar 1, 2007

quick review in Greek

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 3, 2006

Kingdom inevitably invites comparisons to Gladiator, Scott's last major epic. But it is a better film, partly because it does less violence to the history.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 25, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Kingdom of Heaven has little going for it outside of its lavish and gory battle sequences.

| Original Score: C | Oct 21, 2005

...the movie survives its lackluster star and cluttered plot, thanks largely to director Ridley Scott, who makes most of the goings-on fun while we're sitting through them.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 15, 2005

There's an audience for "Kingdom of Heaven" it's just difficult to know where to find them.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 7, 2005

Kingdom of Heaven isn't quite the next Gladiator with a fair share of boring moments, but it tries hard

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 6, 2005

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 5, 2005