by Lisa Hemsley

Created on: June 15, 2010   Last Updated: June 17, 2010

Balian de Ibelin is aggrieving blacksmith. His wife committed suicide when their baby died and she has just been buried. Balian receives a visit from Knight Godfrey de Ibelin and finds out that he is his father and Balian is asked to go with him on their journey to Jerusalem to find peace with God but Balian refuses. Not long after the priest comes to visit Balian and a fight ensues as the priest tells Balian that he had his wife beheaded as she committed suicide so she will now be in hell. Balian kills the priest and soon sets off to find his father and join him on his journey to Jerusalem where he hope he can pray for forgiveness and get his wife into heaven.

Balian and soon catches up with his father and start to prepare to go on their way but soon a group of rider turn up and demand Balian is handed over as he killed the priest but Godfrey dies not allow this and the fight sees a lot of Godfrey’s men being killed. Godfrey is also injured and is told that there is a good chance he will die. The man carry on with their journey and soon they reach the Port where they will await a boat to take them to Jerusalem but Godfrey is not well and soon he is on his death bed. He talks to Balian of the dangers of Jerusalem and what will happen when the King dies. He tells Balian of his hopes for a peaceful life there where Muslims and Christians can live side by side but how a certain few are trying to kill all the Muslim and make Jerusalem a place for just Christians. Godfrey’s last task is to make Balian a knight and ask him to serve the King and the people and try to carry on with his work.

Will Balian make it to Jerusalem and can he continue to serve the King and stop the few people from killing the Muslims. Can Jerusalem be for both Muslim and Christians?

My plot summary may seem a lot to some people but believe me I have only scratched the surface of this story and all of what I have talked about does happen within the fist half and hour of the film and there really is so much more to this story to be found.

I have actually watched this film twice now as the first time I did not watch it properly and was not following the story. It is not a film which I would normally watch but I think the appeal was Green, Jeremy Irons and Brendan Gleeson. They really did give a lot to their roles and made their characters very believable.

The film was Directed by Ridley Scott so I was expecting a lot of good special effects and attention to details and I can honestly

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