With films like Gladiator, Blade Runner, and Black Hawk Down, director Ridley Scott has shown his mastery of cinematic storytelling that is epic in dimension but with a deeply personal core. In Kingdom of Heaven, he turns to the Crusades--that world-shaping 200-year collision between Europe and the East--to frame the tale of a young Frenchman who defies all odds to become a knight, then lives out what that glorious title really means. "I'd always...