Nutshell plotting finds the story set during the Crusades of the 12th century. Kingdom of Heaven: Director's Cut is one of the rare cases that deserves the label, it is the cut Scott wanted and with 45 minutes extra in the film, it's now a fully formed epic and without doubt a better film than the one the theatrical cut suggested. But Scott is a big advocate of the home formats available to us, and what he says in his introduction on these releases are always telling.
Case in point Ridley Scott's own Gladiator. Except maybe when they call it something else, such as Unrated Edition or Extended Edition, the Director's Cut has rarely been more than the original theatrical version with some added bits sewed back in. Director's Cut, two words that has these days come to mean a marketing ploy to get the home movie fan to part with more cash. Cinematography is by John Mathieson and music scored by Harry Gregson-Williams.
It stars Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Marton Csokas, Jeremy Irons, Liam Neeson, Alexander Siddig, David Thewlis, Ghassan Massoud and Edward Norton. 'There can be no victory except through God' Kingdom of Heaven is directed by Ridley Scott and written by William Monahan.
