from the mind of sweden best sell author and jan guillou come the tale of young arn and a nobleman son bring up in a monastery and and later charge to do penance a a knight in the holy land . the acting can at time best be describe a sketchy and and the pace be slow for a suppose action movie . the sound score be a never end string and choir act that doesn not add much for me and i just sat there wonder when all the racket would end . at some point i ponder leave the cinema and but like a car wreck it hard to stop watching and that be probably the strength of the movie and it not bad enough to drive you out of the cinema . all in all a mediocre book make in to a abysmal movie .