Customer Ratings & Reviews

Balien is an honorable blacksmith in a European village drawn out by circumstances to fight corrupted religious leaders as he struggles to save many peaceful people from persecution and murder during one of the 12th century crusades. Orlando Bloom leads many well cast and performed roles portraying various cultures and social classes in one of the more realistic period piece movies made. This movie could be used in classrooms to explore the clash of civilizations where so-called leaders exploit widespread ignorance through fear of authority and spread violence pretending it is sanctioned or even desired by the source of all Love. Some characters demonstrate how honorable people may honor free-will choices to be loving and honest, while other characters choose violence to deny the free-will choices of others. Some learn that there is no true love or true faith without individual free-will choice. You may enjoy the realistic depiction of daily life of the powerful versus the poor and how the poor pay the immeasurably painful price of the power greedy leaders whom they did not even get to elect. The warfare is realistic and epic in scale while the friendships and romance are thoughtful and heart touching. Much more can be written about it as this is one of the best movies made.

Decent movie. Orlando Bloom is a great actor. Nice price.

A good story, very well told. I have to mention the great cinematography, seeing that it's a blu ray movie. I'll be watching this again.

First off, Kingdom of Heaven the Directors Cut is an amazing film which you likely already know and many of you reading this have probably seen the movie many times and are wondering how this re-release fares. Many people have written great reviews regarding the content of the movie and they are much better writers than I so I am going to mainly comment on other things about the Blu-ray. For many years, the majority of the behind the scenes features and bonuses were not available on Blu-ray. They were only available on the DvD 4 disc special edition (which I own and its an amazing collectors edition). Well with this Ultimate/Anniversary Edition (my cover art says Ultimate edition rather then Anniversary), you get the original cut of the film, a roadshow version (which adds a short introduction by Ridley Scott and some intermission breaks like old school films had) and all of the previously released special features from the Director's Cut DVD and the Theatrical Cut DVDs. There is a huge amount of behind the scenes stuff regarding all aspects of the film which they made into a 2.5 hour long documentary and there is even more than that. It is very interesting if you are into that type of thing. The movie looks and sounds amazing in 1080p and 5.1 DTS-HD Master audio. The documentary and other special features are in SD quality unfortunately, though they do look a bit better here than they did on the DVD version.

I had never seen this Ridley Scott movie, but had largely heard negative things over the years. I am very glad I gave it a chance. Turned out to be very enjoyable and well worth picking up. It's a nice package with lots of extras, and the movie looks terrific. They mentioned that it was recut after its theatrical run, which may have made this version better and that explains why so many didn't like it originally. I don't know. If you like medieval sword movies, etc., you will enjoy this.

Had this cut been released, the movie would've been much, much better received, in my opinion. Fantastic. As for the technical aspects of this release: all good, no complaints.

Excellent film on the Crusades. Love the musical score and the time period of this film. Highly recommend.

Somewhat historically accurate, but although a great movie all the way through.

If you like the movie, then you should get it. I have seen it a few times already. The picture quality is excellent on my 120 inch projector screen. I got it for a good price, so definitely worth it.

I really enjoyed the movie. Especially the Director 's cut. Pleasantly surprise with th ending.

Where to begin. The original theatrical release of Kingdom of Heaven was a bit of a train wreck, with too much happening in too short a span of time to really flesh out any of the plot lines. The Director's Cut that was released on DVD years ago was a revelation: finally the film was released in the way director Ridley Scott intended. The DVD box set I bought had a wealth of bonus features, in addition to the extended cut of the film (think Lord of the Rings Extended Editions as far as amount of content added, and then some), was separated on to two discs, and bookended with a really nice inclusion of "Overture," "Intermission," and Exit music a la old-fashioned film epics of years ago. When the Director's Cut was first released on Blu-Ray, however, it was a single disc release with no bonus features and no musical interludes. This release includes all of the bonus features from the DVD box set, as well as all the different versions of the film in a branching format (including my favorite, the Director's Cut with musical bookends, called the Roadshow Version. Great movie, pick this one up.

What a great epic from Ridley Scott! Great amount of battle action and historical drama without getting preachy about Religion.

the original version is good but the directors cut makes this movie amazing

Solid historical movie. Lots of good acting and good plot. A little middling here and there but nothing major. Solid Ridley Scott film.

I really enjoyed this movie especially the Director's cut. Director's cut more indepth background history.

Outstanding cast. Bloom did great job. Special effect was very goog.

The theatrical version of this movie is ok but, the director's cut makes it great. Watch the director's cut.

Unfortunitently, this great epic-film was overlooked by the Academy Awards – I believe it should have been recognized. You will come back to this epic more than once. Like father, like son. This film is, perhaps, the most powerful moving picture on the subject of Christianity that I have seen. To understand its’ message see it more than once with Captions ON, then see it again and again until its truth comes to you and you shall be enlightened. This picture is not perfect but it’s very close to it. The siege of Jerusalem by Saladin, the sheer numbers, the tactics, the use of artillery and tousles, siege towers and their defense strategy are well-presented and the aftermath are historically correct.

Much better image and sound quality than the DVD version. Glad I bought it

Yes the movie is very long, but well worth watching. The fight scenes are done well.