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Sorry, this movie sucks

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

The one main reason why I wanted to see this is mainly because of the caliber of the cast. I enjoyed watching Gustaf Skarsgard, Vincent Perez, Bibi Anderson and Stellan Skarsgard in previous movies. With one or two recommendations I decided to take a look at this.The movie's plot (remember this is the 3 hour version) is that Arn is a boy who fell off a tower trying to catch the prince's crow. His parents pray a deal with God that if he survives to put him in a monastery. He survives and years later he is a monk who is taught to fight by the former Templar Guilbert (Vincent Perez). He soon falls in love with a woman named Cecilla. Soon after that it is revealed she bears his child. Arn and Knut (The rightful ruler of the throne but now isn't because his father was killed by the current king) go and ambush the King and kill him. Because Cecilla bears Arn's child and that he killed the king when Arn and Cecilla weren't married. Cecilla is sentenced to 20 years at a nunnery and Arn is to be sentenced at a monastery, then after that Arn is asked to fight at The Crusades.Cecilla goes through horrible torment and Arn goes through battle after battle. I'm not really going to go into detail though. After that He returns to his wife and son. Knut is soon on his deathbed and the only way to make peace is to hand over the throne to the son of the former king that Knut decapitated all those years earlier. The only condition that this king has is that Knut's son Erik is to take the throne after him. Arn asks for a person who he trains to observe The King and his actions towards Erik. The King asks this person to go out to a river and drown all three of Knut's children. He seems to comply until the last minute and kills the 2 guards observing him, in collateral damage Knut's youngest son dies. Arn then leads one final battle against the king.The character development of this is really well done. The pacing of this movie is just right (which is why I will never watch the 2 hour version). The Acting (as I suspected) is great. I would recommend this version to people who have seen the 2 hour version or those who want to see a good movie about the Crusades.

Swedes and the Crusades. Scandinavian knight templars. Little odd, at first, but historically accurate. It is only late 12th century after all. "Arn the Knight Templar", has all the perfect ingredients for an exciting yarn about the times of yore. Romantic, albeit violent story about separated lovers, beautifully filmed battle scenes, international cast of excellent actors. But, I soon realized that I am not watching the intended mini series of three episodes, but a two hour movie. Still, a very good movie, but, as all edited to a shorter format movies, little rushed and illogical. That would happen when you try to condense five hours to two. And , in the end, it was a great surprise to see in a brilliant supporting part great Bibi Andersson, as evil Mother Rakissa. She is much older than in the old Bergmann days, but still a marvelous actress.

While this type of film will always be compared to big budget films such as Troy etc, Arn had character and a realism that is not often present in blockbusters these days. Troy may have cost more but Arns fight scenes were believable and the costumes were excellent. The scenery and sets were also of a high quality. The acting was very good throughout and I had sympathy for the characters. This film is a great example of what can be produced by European film makers using traditional and authentic material and actors/extras. Arn left me with the thought that I had been well entertained and that I would like to have seen more.

Gosh, things were clean in 1100! Here I thought people were living in a certain degree of squalor, and now we find out they were all as perfectly spotless as fashion models.The landscapes and cinematography are pretty. Some of the character actors, notably Skarsgard and Callow, are effective. But most are wooden megaphones for not-terribly-good dialog. The Cecilia enjoys her own acting entirely too much, and the Arn looks constipated most of the time, as if he didn't want to soil his costume.The film's handling of time and space, flashbacks and intercutting among various plot lines, was simply incompetent. The opening narration was out of a Bronston epic, which worked well in "King of Kings," "55 Days at Peking" and "El Cid" but not here.For all the money and ambition involved, this film was strangely muted and small, as if being boring was a virtue. Hollywood pictures, for all their faults, try not to be as spineless as this one. Here the size of their budget apparently frightened them. This picture goes on for hours muttering softly to itself, while the subject matter cries out for occasional therapeutic yelling.I haven't read the books by Guillou, a psychotic anti-Semite who drank himself to death. He doesn't sell outside Sweden, which is probably a good thing. But the plot as presented here was cliché'd and predictable every step of the way, with the dreary superficiality of an airplane paperback. This film does not make me curious to explore any further.Rent "El Cid."