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...Christian knight Godfrey (Liam Neeson) enlists his illegitimate son Balian in the Crusades. Godfrey's hope is that they can fashion "a kingdom of conscience, a kingdom of heaven" where "there is peace between Christian and Muslim." Well, one way for peace to come to the region would be for the Christians to leave. That doesn't suit Godfrey and his men. They are soldiers for Christ. They have a mission to achieve, and they will do it, by God. Their God, that...
Alfred Kinsey (played with a magnificently starchy charisma by Liam Neeson) is a straitlaced Methodist who expands his pedantic passion for insects into a fascination with the eccentricities of human beings. He leaps to fame in the same way Vladimir Nabokov did, as a decorous entomologist who shocked '50s America with a high-IQ book about sex. At Indiana University Kinsey first scandalized the academic community with lectures on sex and then with his books that itemized the frequency of masturbation among teen boys and the, shall we say, animal husbandry of farmhands...
Star Liam Neeson, in perhaps the best performance of his career, seems unafraid to openly engages the sordid aspects of Kinsey’s life. Kinsey involved himself in several open sexual relationships, hetero- as well as homosexual, many of which involved coworkers at the infamous Kinsey Institute...
...familiar faces and tropes. Hire Ridley Scott to direct a burly period epic that pits an obscure hero against historical figures (think Gladiator, then substitute the Holy Roman Empire for the plain old Roman one). Cast Orlando Bloom as a young smithy who boldly challenges the nobility and Liam Neeson as the rebel hero's stalwart father figure (as he was for Leonardo DiCaprio in Gangs of New York). Add Jeremy Irons for tone and Eva Green (The Dreamers) for the mandatory romance. Stir...
...LAURA LINNEY IN P.S.She should have won in 2001 for You Can Count on Me, and she also scores as Neeson's wife in Kinsey. In this tale of a teacher- student affair, she uses subtle gestures to create a smart, sexy, vulnerable woman. Other actresses may cry Uncle. We cry Oscar! --By Richard Corliss