I made myself some dinner and decided to sit down and watch something subtitled since Dad was out of the house. I pulled Knights of the Teutonic and sat down to watch a three hour knights in armor epic from Poland. Almost instantly I almost choked to death on my food...where is MST3K when you need them? I was awe struck and giggling from the get go. This tale of the Teutonic knights battling with a Lord who didn't like the idea of bowing down to them is the sort of thing that would have been badly dubbed into English and run at 3am on the late show. What is this? The editing is disjointed, the plot jumps around and while there is a very real sense of seriousness it plays almost like a kids film. Classic of Polish cinema? oh please no. Who are these people and what are they doing? I don't know. To be certain it all looks spectacular but after 45 minutes I really didn't know what was going on. Actually I had the feeling I was watching the cliff notes version.Two more hours of this? I think not. I turned it off. I'll try it again down the road but unless I can find something that makes the movie click I think my second attempt is going to be much like this first one- short and sweet.
Review of Knights of the Teutonic Order
