Storyline

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.

Plot Keywords

horse, humiliation, illegitimate child, king, nun, prince, sister sister relationship, sweden, sword duel, sword fight, horse riding, henchman, forest, sexuality, sex, kissing while having sex, character name in title, based on novel, local blockbuster, ambush

Short Review

It's not a bad movie, not on a technical level and it's fairly competent at telling it's story. The characters were all right, although I wish they were fleshed out a bit more. However like so many other movies it had a hard time being historically accurate. The part I am thinking of in particular is when the two main characters commit adultery. While I'm not familiar with what Sweden was like in the middle ages, it was Catholic and so I found it a bit odd that they were not sentenced to death, rather than twenty years in a monastery.The movie switches between being predictable and unpredictable, ending up with a good balance. Overall I'd say it's average. Not a great movie, but certainly not bad.

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