Box Office
Flop · 1.7xBudget$130M
Worldwide Gross$218.4M
Kingdom of Heaven sticks to classic epic storytelling of redemption, knighthood, and siege defense without identity politics or oppression frameworks. The result is neutral, story-first entertainment at a low 3/10 woke score.
Kingdom of Heaven centers on Balian (Orlando Bloom), a French blacksmith who travels to Jerusalem during the Crusades, becomes a baron, defends the city, and ultimately prioritizes protecting its people over religious sites in negotiations with Saladin (Ghassan Massoud).
The narrative follows classic epic tropes of personal redemption, knighthood, and siege warfare without centering identity politics or systemic oppression frameworks. Casting follows historical logic with European actors as Crusaders and Arab/Sudanese-British performers (Massoud, Alexander Siddig) in Muslim roles, using authentic actors for those parts as Ridley Scott explicitly intended for balance rather than any diversity mandate.
We've run a full content analysis on Kingdom of Heaven and scored it 3/10 on the woke scale. Read our detailed breakdown above to see exactly what we found.
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