Le Sang des Templiers

When you have in mind, that this is only a German TV-Production, this is a decent movie. It is actually well made and The Director was even nominated for an Oscar for doing the short Movie "rote Jacke". The Story might not be the most original one, but it is quite entertaining. This is about the Templars, that are responsible of guarding the tomb of Jesus Christ and the holy grail. The holy grail is supposed to give eternal life to the one that drinks from it. The story however is focused on a boy, who doesn't know who his parents are but notices, that he is somehow special. He is much stronger than the average human and his wounds also heal pretty quick. He grew up in a monastery but he doesn't know any of his past or origin. one day when he is 18 years old, he is being kidnapped and he finds out things that he wished he never would have found out. This is where the main story begins. Some love elements as well as family drama are integrated in this adventure movie, though not always very convincing. But overall this is a quite entertaining movie, considering that this is only a TV-production. The action scenes are also done very well. overall a 7 of 10 point movie.

Some good moments, so many bad ones

This made for TV movie has definitely some good moments, no it's not the script, that's a bad moment – it's the locations for example. Shot in Lithuania, with some truly breathtaking views of the former Russian enclave.

Story sets around the legendary temple knights and, yes you guessed it, 'Highlander'. (Twist your neck again and again bad fellow) Young student (Mirko Land) doesn't know he is a chosen one, a direct descendant of one of the founding temple members…. Bad thing is, he is wanted by both his parents, his evil mom and noble dad. (Harald Krassnitzer – He's really good) and then it's about the holy grail – again… Minus point: Absolutely cool sword fights (for a TV Movie) are completely and utterly ruined with loud and cheep computer music. Why? Why on earth do German TV Movies have to have an abundance of music in all the wrong places. This one is no. 1 for worst sound design and music, EVER in MOVIE. Watch any US / GB / FRENCH sword fights and voila, the less music the better – morons. To round it up. Whatever happened to former beauty Catherine Flemming? Here she looks like a mob and is completely out of place acting wise. Two part miniseries, good ratings but lost about 1 Million viewers on the second part. No wonder, 'you can fool some of the people some of the time, but not all the people all times…'

Interesting movie! But a bit too many ingredients in this cake. Interestingly enough there were even elements of the "Magic Fluge" (Queen of the night, apparently good, yet evil + Sarastro, apparently evil yet good plus Tamino + Pamina carrying the day after trials and tribulations) Strange, though, that they refer in this film to Constantine as "Roman KING" rather than emperor, handing the "Western Provinces of Rome" to the "Vatican". More strange that the "Rock of Petri" is supposed to be "under" the Vatican in the catacombs. This is more than a bit bizarre, including the immaculate condition of Constantine's tomb (Huh?) there. I always thought he died and was interred in "his" city of Constantinope? But hey, it's only a movie.

On the whole, it's well done, though, good action scenes, albeit a tad lengthy at times. Plot line a bit overconstrued but intriguing, the acting was/is great, but the dialogue somewhat tortured at times and the music almost always cheesy.

It was an enjoyable 3hours+, but if they find a way to simplify the plot a bit, shorten some of the (excellent) sword fights, go easy on the gore - and bring it down to just under 2hours, this will be one hell of a good movie!!!

I am glad I rented this at a discount. It was tuff to watch. Just boring as all get out. A "B" movie to be sure. You need to have 2 litre bottles of mountain dew to stay awake. It should not have been that long. Just make it quick and end it. The Germans need a lot of work when making an action flick. Could you have gotten any worse of an actor to play the star Luke Skywalker. The father mopes around. The mother gropes around. It trys to be a empire strikes back, indiana jones, blade, highlander, apocalypse now, and da vinci code all in one. Man it sucks. But theirs a few spots that could of had promise. Bad story with no direction. Visual effects poor and slow. Dvds should end up on I40 truck stops.

I rented the DVD today despite the jacket cover not being overly influential. The most difficult part was locating this movie on this website since it is called Code of the Templars on the DVD, and nothing recognizable pulled up in a search. I was only able to find it by searching an actor's name.

The hardest part for me with this movie was getting beyond the English dubbing. I could tell that the casting was done well and that the cast were good actors of good caliber, but the dubbing initially was poorly done and I almost ejected it from the player. I would like an opportunity to view this movie without the dubbing and read subtitles.

This movie is once again about the holy good-goodies versus the greedy baddies sword-fighting and duking it out to fight to drink from the grail, and the opposers to fight to protect the secret location of the holy grail. Such movie plots are fun and enjoyable, and this one was no different. The lopping of heads was similar to Highlander, but the main difference was we got to see the gushing blood, which I think could have and I would have preferred it if it'd have been left out. There were times I felt the sword fights were too long and one was particularly not done well to the point of being corny .. almost as if to say, let's stick in a fight for some film. Also, I think if some of the gore and shortening some of the sword fights my knees would not have started aching due to sitting so long. But, since I was able to move about I didn't quit viewing it .. I was enjoying it. I'm just glad I'd not seen it with commercials or my body would not have been able to cope.

For a holy grail treasure hunt foreign movie, this one was entertaining with explanations to keep guiding me through as things unfolded. Once I got past the bad dubbing that was done at the start, I got into it and enjoyed it.