Via an Amazon review, I learned that what I saw is a cobbled together 2 hour version of a 6 part mini-series, released specifically for the North American market, emphasizing the action-y parts over the actual story. Which pretty much explains everything I didn't like about it.

This is a movie that made me feel warm in my hart. It is not so much about the epic battles and action rather a beautiful love story, unique because of the era it takes place. To bad it's hard to find as a dvd or blu-ray in the original two-film format, let alone a digital copy. The official releases are combined into one shortened movie.

It could be a great movie, but it fails to create some involvement. I wasn't able to care about the characters and their struggles.

Even the battle scenes don't manage to build gripping tension, like other movies of this caliber.

Crowd-pleasing, Swedish medieval knight movie with a great cast and high production value. It's executed quite well, however, the story is very conventional, predictable and obvious.

Okay historical drama. The fact that it's an international production with an international cast gives it a nice mix of actors, and it was interesting to see the switching back and froth from Swedish to English to Arabic and back. I'm confused that there appears to be a sequel even though it's hard to imagine how they made a sequel to it-the version on Netflix felt pretty complete.

It's honestly a great film. The film has a rich historical setting, centering around the founding of Sweden and the Crusades. The villains aren't the ridiculously evil mustache twirling types. They're believable people with clear motives like revenge or political ambition for the Sverkers or jealousy and arrogance for Grand Master Douche Muffin. The film is also centered on and anchored by the strong but not overpowering romance that frames Arn and Cecilia's actions in a believable way. The film is also filled with plenty of great action scenes due to Arn being a Swedish badass of epic proportions. Basically, this film has it all. Except ninjas.

Leuke driedelige miniserie

Via an Amazon review, I learned that what I saw is a cobbled together 2 hour version of a 6 part mini-series, released specifically for the North American market, emphasizing the action-y parts over the actual story. Which pretty much explains everything I didn't like about it.

This is a movie that made me feel warm in my hart. It is not so much about the epic battles and action rather a beautiful love story, unique because of the era it takes place. To bad it's hard to find as a dvd or blu-ray in the original two-film format, let alone a digital copy. The official releases are combined into one shortened movie.