Eva Green's Freckles: A Film Review

Yesterday I saw Ridley Scott's "Kingdom of Heaven" starring messrs Bloom, Irons, Neeson & Eva Green. This film is basically of the historical-action flick genre as popularised by "Gladiator" & "Troy". It boasts copious amounts of melee violence, elaborate sets (filmed on location in Spain & Morrocco) & production values with dramatic visuals of massed horsemen and armies. Oh and close ups of the lovely Eva Green.

The film is set during the 12th century Crusades and depicts a mixture of factual/fictional characters & events; a Christian King (Edward Norton) of Jerusalem who practices tolerance & tries to keep the peace between Christians & Muslims, a blacksmith/knight (Orlando Bloom) who plays the upstanding (& unbelievably self-denying) hero, and a bunch of evil scheming religious fanatics who want to start a holy war (hey it was the Crusades right?). Oh yeah and there's the obligatory love interest, Eva Green as the King's sister.

The plot is fairly predictable, and basically there's a lot of violence although the film does try to communicate the message - tolerance: good, fanatacism: bad. Hence Mademoiselle Green's comment:"It's not like a stupid Hollywood movie". Overall I enjoyed "Kingdom of Heaven" for what it is, a competent, visually impressive, historo- action flick, and umm yeah ... Eva Green's freckles.