![]() Screenwriter William Monahan (who would go on to win an Oscar for The Departed) takes the hero's journey and keeps upending it so that there's really no safe place for Balian. It also further hammers home the constant theme of disruption and turning expectations on their head. As for the action scenes, they also work better as the ambush scene is bloodier and heightens the stakes and dangers that Balian is about to face. These deeper relationships and characters permeate the entirety of the Director's Cut with just about every lead being provided with more nuance and shading so that Kingdom of Heaven stops being a blockbuster action movie, but more of a character drama that happens to have some large set pieces. Balian returns home with Sibylla having found a measure of peace although once back in France, he encounters new Crusaders hoping to retake the Holy Land. The two ultimately come to a truce where Balian and his people are allowed to leave in peace in exchange for ceding Jerusalem to Saladin. Balian is left to defend the city against Saladin's forces. When the King dies, the truce is broken, and the Templar force is decimated. ![]() However, on the journey, Barisan dies and Balian is left to try and defend King Baldwin while also falling for the King's sister Sibylla ( Eva Green), whose husband Guy de Lusigan ( Marton Csokas) looks to break the fragile truce with the Muslims. ![]() Balian reunites with his lost father Barisan ( Liam Neeson) and the two head to Jerusalem to try to keep the peace between King Baldwin IV ( Edward Norton), a dying leper, and the sultan Saladin ( Ghassan Massoud). Set during the Crusades, Kingdom of Heaven film follows Balian of Ibelin ( Orlando Bloom), a man grieving the death of his wife and on the run for murdering a corrupt priest ( Michael Sheen). ![]() In 2005, Ridley Scott released Kingdom of Heaven, his first historical action movie since the Oscar-winning Gladiator. ![]()
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