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Plot: Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.
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MCT:August 13, 2008I'm so glad that I found this movie here. I don't like my home-country-movies orginally but this is great. I like movies that don't taking place in our time.
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Kindly to know the world, We all can understand how's the nature in life.
A peace land, A lovely heart, a angle smile,.......if you enjoy the little things in life.
Life can be peace.
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MCT:June 30, 2008the voice in the beginning and the music overall sucks, the rest is bearable though very B soometimes...
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MCT:June 24, 2008
In terms of cinematography, directing and overall production, this was quite impressive for being a Swedish creation (and I should know because I'm a Swede myself). Unfortunately I haven't read any of the books by Jan Guillou, but after seeing this I kind of wish I had now, since the story of the knight templar Arn, turned out to be more intriguing than I had first anticipated.
The movie also depicts a piece of ancient swedish history, which became the most prominent selling point for me really, as it's an era I personally don't know that much about. It made for an interesting watch, and made up for the abundance of clichés found in the script. I was also very fond of the music score, as it reminded me a lot of the work by Howard Shore. Not as memorable perhaps, but ear candy nonetheless.
On the negative side, however, there were a lot of things that weighed down my final rating for this film. The first of which being the obvious lack of action. Most of the scenes were also annoyingly blabbery, which would have been fine if the dialogue was well-written, but since it was of very banal nature, I often found myself impatiently waiting for swords to be drawn and horses to be ridden into battle, rather than paying heed to anything the characters had to say.
As for the few action-scenes it had, well, they were pretty much over before they ever had the chance to become exciting, which is not all too surprising considering the director's lack of experience with big-budget productions. Still a decent and worthwhile film on the whole though, even if it's hardly something I'd wanna watch again. -
MCT:June 23, 2008
If you're expecting action you will be disappointed. There's a lot of slow scenes with talking and sometimes it gets too cheasy. Overall a great story with beautiful environments. Despite it's length I found it enjoyable all the way and I'm looking forward to the sequels.
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MCT:June 19, 2008
I did expect a bit more of this movie. It did not get me excited really. Although it is the second nicest movie ever made in sweden ;) (after "commander hamilton")
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MCT:June 18, 2008
this movie was just so awesome! i loved it! it's really the best swedish movie i've ever seen. good job! :)
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MCT:June 7, 2008
Like always i have not read the books once again but i like historical movies. This movie was quite decent and well made for being made in sweden. The story follow Arn the knight templar in war and love.. There are actually more talk and romance than action in this flick. I had hope for big battle scenes but they were quick ended so i got disappointed.. Anyway overall this an average adventure movie in my opinion.
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MCT:April 16, 2008I liked the 13th Warrior because they didn't speak their scandanavian language through the whole movie. I really dislike subtitles if I can avoid them.
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MCT:February 24, 2008
biggest movie in swedich movie industry. 127 miljon swedich kronor have been put in to this movie it's big. it was good but not as i thought. i have read the books that this movie is based on so i had expected something more.
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MCT:February 3, 2008
A rather OK movie, I have read all the books about Arn so I was prepared that the movie should be a little bit slow and sometimes even boring. If you haven't read the books you might yawn a couple of times. The movie is a mix of love, religon and fight for the crown. You notice that this isn't a Hollywood production because the big battle between the knight templars and Saladin wasn't so spectacular I was hoping, it was over after a few minutes :-( But are you interested in swedish history or a love story, this one might be something for you.
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MCT:February 2, 2008Skulle inte rekomendera denna film, ett sådan slöseri med pengar har aldrig skådats i svensk filmhistoria
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MCT:January 12, 2008
Helt okej film. Hade ganska låga förväntningar men blev positivt överraskad. Storyn känns dock ofärdig. Men vi som läst böckerna vet ju hur det går ;)
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MCT:January 8, 2008But probably just because it's Swedish and my friend takes lessons from the leading characters father like my mum also did
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MCT:January 6, 2008A disappointment, despite lowering my expectations after reading the books. I believe they miss a vital part of the theme in the books, about the creation of the Swedish nation. Instead they focus on a simple love story and the crowd-pleasing part of Arn as a Templar.
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MCT:January 2, 2008For lack of a better word - this was embarassing and how I wish I could get those 2.5 hours of my life back..
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MCT:December 30, 2007
The most expensive movie in northern europe ever. I did actually expect more. It was a very slow movie.
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MCT:December 29, 2007Great movie. Much better than a lot of Hollywood-crap that is poured over us...Touching story and good acting!
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MCT:December 28, 2007
A 3,5/5 star movie with loads of 5/5 highlights. I'm going to write a longer review in English in a while. Until then please enjoy one of the best things about this movie:
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MCT:December 28, 2007
A great story well made. And i will quote a friend of mine when i say that i'm very proud of that it's swedish.
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MCT:December 28, 2007
The movie is predictable all the way. What disturbed me was the English language in the beginning of the movie. Why on Earth did monks speak English on the Swedish countryside back in 1150? Totally ridiculous! The first 10 minutes all scenes were set in medieval Sweden and I heard no less than 4 languages: Latin, French, Swedish and English! And all those 4 languages were spoken by the same characters! Remarkable isn't it? I'm pretty sure the English language was pretty unnecessary in this movie and purely there for commercial reasons! What a shame!
The scenes were beautiful, it is obvious that this movie has cost the Swedish filmindustry tons of money.
The theatre was sold out this evening and so were the other performances.
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MCT:December 26, 2007
Huge movie this, but the actor playing Arn is pretty bland, though also has a really good international supporting cast, including Stellan Skarsgård, Simon Callow, Vincent Perez, Steven Waddington, still has a nice story, adaptted from two of Jan Guillou´s hit novel series. What few action pieces there are they are pretty well choreographed for a swedish movie. The photography is very well handled too with nice visuals. Still not as good as Kingdom of Heaven - Extended version, but they are still pretty different stories even though parallels can be made.
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The movie had its Swedish premiere yesterday :-)
I also saw a "behind the scenes" documentary on TV. As I suspected there will be no spoken Latin or Arabic (unfortunately), only Swedish and English.posted 247 days ago -
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Based on the novels of acclaimed author Jan Guillou it's the biggest Swedish movie project to this date with a budget of 210.000.000 SEK (~30.000.000 USD) for two movies, though it's currently going through some difficulties with the sponsors :-/
It's set in the same time period as Kingdom of Heaven (it even has some of the same main characters) and tells the epic story of a young boy named Arn Magnusson (Son of Magnus). After having a near brush with death, falling down an outer fortification wall Arn is raised by Cicerian monks as promise to God, made by his religious mother, for saving the boy's life (or so she thought).posted 356 days ago -
The first time away from home is hard on the young boy. He finds the monastery life very tedious as he already has been schooled in both reading, writing, calculus and Latin by his mother. One of the monks tries a different approach in the boy's training; in secresy teaching him bowmanship, swordplay and riding. The monk is in fact a retired Knight Templar, one of many fateful events that will come to shape Arn's life.
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When he reaches adulthood and is sent out of the monastery to return to his father's estate he has some difficulties coping with the savage world on the outside, being used to the life of a scholar, running water indoors and even sophisticated cooling solutions for storing food in the summer. Through his father's business associates he meets and falls in love with a girl; Cecilia Algotsdotter.
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Unfortunately he has had a previous brief love affair with the girl's sister during the short time outside the monastery walls and this puts him in a great deal of trouble with the Roman Catholic Church. Not the fact that he has had pre-marital sex, but the fact that he has slept with two sisters. To make remedy for his "sins" he is sent to the Holy land as a Knight Templar for 20 years - a lifetime by medieval standards...
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