Common Sense Note
Parents need to know that this movie has several one-on-one fight scenes, as well as extreme and explicit battle violence, including sword-fighting, head-chopping, limbs-lopping, impaling, fiery catapults firing, buildings and bodies burning, and blood spurting. The film includes a euphemistic reference to the fact that the hero's father raped his mother (he says, "I knew your mother. To be courteous, I should say it was against her objections"), and various references to the Crusades (battles fought, warriors lost), as a backdrop for the hero's noble cause (he wants to bring Muslims and Christians together, contrary to the desires of all devout folks on all sides). Characters drink wine in goblets. The film includes a romance between the hero and the good king's sultry sister, who is also married to the bad king (this relationship leads to a passionate kiss that fades out before explicit sex). The leprous good king wears a silver mask throughout the film; after his death, the mask is removed to reveal his diseased, caved-in face (an image that might alarm some younger viewers).
Sexual
Content
One sexual tryst, artistically rendered.
Violence
Battle scenes are graphic, hard-hitting, and energetically depicted.
Language
Some strong language.
Social
Behavior
Villains start wars in search of "glory" and territory; the Crusades are the backdrop.Can be a great discussion starter in your home about the beginnings of conflict between Eastern and Western cultures.
Consumerism
Not applicable
Drugs / Tobacco /
Alcohol
Not applicable
