Even if it disappoints you, that most certainly will, it must be intelligent. It fails miserably. What you expect is that all that is shown at least with some style and, best of all, the end is surprising, moving or thrilling, making the experience worthy. There is no such thing as style, here. Religious and political facts are given in the most artificial way possible.
Nothing clicks .
The photography is too bright for the darkness of the tone, not creating any suspense. The music is pompous, with that already heard somewhere-else effect. Even the cast can t do something decent here, with Banderas and Derek Jacobi overacting as much as they are allowed to. So, at the end you leave the theatre with the taste of a stupid climax with pointless explosions, mixed with plenty of money-shots of Jerusalem and, what s worse, realising that those religious facts are, proudly, either contradicted or forgotten. Something that ultimately will be done, really soon, with the movie.