[Old Sarge]

Orlando Bloom, Liam Neeson and Jeremy Irons

And I will lay money down that all three of them will be bitching about "Bush's War For Oil".....

I hate Hollywood.

[BonnieJ]

I really don't think that most in the movie audiences are catching on to these liberal messages. They go to a movie to see the story, action, a particular star...not to get their politics. Some that have been seen as political are fairly subtle too, esp. when they place them in such long-ago historical timeframes.

[newgeezer]

The Western crusaders are too often dismissed as bloodthirsty and rapacious

Weren't they?

[Enchante]

These morons are propagandists for Al Qaeda and like-minded terrorists. Make the "crusaders" out to be the villains of history (they were not) and let it seem like Muslims then and now are merely concerned to keep evil "crusaders" out of their lands. Let's just forget that it was ISLAM that violently overran much of the known world from 800 to 1600 AD and that the nasty crusaders were merely trying to salvage the Christian holy lands from the Islamic onslaught.

[MikefromOhio]

ok so it's a review....

I will probably still see it in the theatre and then we will see what I think...

movies with supposed Liberal messages don't really seem to affect anything.

[sanchez810]

According to the (Catholic Encyclopedia Crusades are) : Expeditions undertaken, in fulfilment of a solemn vow, to deliver the Holy Places from Mohammedan tyranny.

[steve-b]

The Western crusaders are too often dismissed as bloodthirsty and rapacious

Well, duh. The Western Crusaders of 1205 were indeed as bloodthirsty and rapacious as the Wahabists of 2005. The difference is, obviously, that Western Civilization (mostly) got over it.

[muleskinner]

Misleading Headline Alert

There is nothing about Orlando Bloom in the text. Why am that?

[Sam Cree]

Hopefully, if nothing else, this film will have some good archery scenes. I'm waiting for peer (freeper) review, though!

[kinghorse]

Everyone needs to severely chill out, so I can rant.

If I see one my "Our G_d" bumper stickers I think i will scream. I thought there was only one G_d. Makes the asshat driving the car look like a polytheist not a Christian. Dumb DUMB people treating religion like a sporting event. did I mention they are DUMB.

[Darkwolf]

Grafting PC politics onto such an old story surely is weird. The Crusades were far more complicated than most seem to believe--Paul Johnson has called this the most mis-taught era of history--and the problem seems to be that it's hard to isolate one crusade or one limited series of events as indicative of the whole.

The Christians of the Crusades are not the Christians of modern times. Unfortunately, the most visible and vocal Islamists today are as bad or worse than the Muslims in this era. Sorry for the naysayers on this thread, but that's the truth. Trying to buff up the present-day face of Islam by saying "Oh YEAH, well hundreds of years ago look what you Christians did!" is, uh, lame.

[Barney59]

Hollywood and it's people and products are nothing more than hollow shells... void of true content or truth...

They are but a metaphor of the stage set.. fake walls, doors and windows... not real but 2 dimensional...

[what's up]

Liam Neeson...gross.

I will never look at him the same again since he played that Kinsey pervert.

[Darkwolf]

The thing not addressed here so far is the total fiction at the core of this movie. Not just the characters, but the whole idea of a "Good Christian" and "Good Muslim" coalition working together, a kind of UN of the period. THAT to be is the revisionist BS we should all be against. Somehow the apologists for this haven't mentioned this.

After the DaVinci Code, I guess secret societies are all the rage.

[k2blader]

Yay!! :-)

[TightyRighty]

Let's not forget Orlando Bloom needed a chest wig to make him look more manly!

[theFIRMbss]

>and religion itself (both Christianity and Islam) is reduced to little more than a source of fanaticism

Did the movie "Troy"
even mention the Greek gods
or that religion?!