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While watching Kingdom of Heaven, I just had the strange feeling that I was watching The Lord of the Ring without stakes, good scenario, great acting, humour and good music, and so on... I just found myself bored by the stupid predictable story of a black-smith turning instantly into an over-skilled knight, who will loose every common sense to pursue an unjustified quest of purity and atonement. Bored also by the stiff and unoriginal directing, the 3D modeled cities that look nowhere near realistic and the lack of original elements to disrupt the monotony.

It had good elements, it's not a bad movie, but I'm just tired of always watching the same characters, doing the same mistakes, in the same hollow environments and I think that Ridley Scott can do way better than this.

With Rodin, Jacques Doillon gives us a very strange movie. While the actors are great, the light is OK and the cinematography is flawless, what ruin the film is the story and how it is told.

Rather than going through the events of the life of the sculptor, Rodin is only showing glimpses of it like Quotes, moments of works or moments of love. The problem with it is, though the chronological order is preserved, that the spectator is completely lost with untold names or missing events and you always need to think about what happened before in the movie to finally understand what took place an hour ago, which is completely annihilating the empathy for the characters because you can't feel the same as them because you have no idea what just happened.

In addition to that, the scenario have no real purpose, the movie is starting nowhere, and is ending nowhere. Moreover, there are totally useless nude scenes, which is sometimes embarrassing because its going nowhere and is never justified. I'm OK with that, but there must be at least 20 minutes of these, and because the movie is often boring and overall too long, it's annoying.