Half way through Kingdom of Heaven our hero is given a choice: Marry the good king’s, beautiful, nice daughter, who he is in love with and she is in love with him, and become king of Jerusalem, rule it wisely and keep the peace. In exchange, the corrupt guy who is going out with said daughter, who is trying to provoke war and murders people periodically and who wants to murder our hero, will be arrested and executed.
Sounded like a no-brainer to me.
However, our hero, does not want to sell his soul, to have his enemy arrested on a trumped up charge.
At this point I switched off and enjoyed the cinematography.
The good king dies, the corrupt guy marries the beautiful princess and provokes a war where thousands of people die and he is captured.
The hero takes over and manages to kill enough of the enemy that they agree a truce where the citizens of Jerusalem will not be slaughtered.
So thousands of innocent deaths later, the hero, soul presumably intact, gets the girl and peace.
It could have been so much simpler.