Kingdom 2019 Movie Review
Often melodramatic and unapologetically goofy, Kingdom combines manga tropes with stylized fight scenes to make its subject matter entertaining. Director Shinsuke Sato’s Kingdom - a live-action film adaptation of Yasuhisa Hara’s manga series that’s not to be confused with Netflix’s medieval Korean zombie horror show (which also debuted in 2019) of the same name - is part history lesson, but mostly a pulpy historical action-adventure more concerned with bloody, yet elegant swordplay than cold hard facts....