Product Details

• Actors: John Rhys-Davies, Rick Overton, Michael Des Barres, Catherine Punch
• Directors: Klaus Knoesel
• Format: Color
• Number of tapes: 1
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00095W61M
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #624,939 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Roland Emmerich (Stargate, Independence Day, and Godzilla) brings you John Rhys-Davies in a Monty Pythonesque tale of a band of Crusaders who find themselves in possession of an Alien ship and the Alien to pilot it. Armed with the means to conquer the Holy Land the naive Crusaders set off for a grand crusade only to find themselves not in Jerusalem but at the mercy of an entire alien world....heaven help the Aliens.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Missed Opportunity, March 12, 2000

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Rod Summers (Bristol, Bristol United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: High Crusade (DVD)

I had high hopes for this movie when I first learnt that someone was going to make a film version of Poul Anderson's classic novel, but somewhere along the way the producers decided to make this as a comedy movie instead of a straight action adventure story. Stupid beyond belief, the powers that be missed the chance to turn a great action story into a great action movie. Dumb. What should have been a stirring space epic with bold knights in armour, treachery and villainous aliens becomes a tedious - and cringingly bad at times - waste of time. One day, perhaps, someone will have the guts to make a proper film version of Anderson's great book.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Sci-fi?, January 24, 2010

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Beast757 "Jay" (Georgia) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: High Crusade (DVD)

This film has a good premise and excellent material to work from, but does not avail itself of it. This is a passable movie that could have been great if it had followed the novel more closely. If you are under 15, see the film...if you are older, read the book. It is an excellent work to read.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Oh dear, September 6, 2001

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Scott Knights (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: High Crusade (DVD)

Sorry, but this is a dismal movie. It starts badly when the credit blurb on the packaging says Paul, not Poul Anderson. Not only is it completely unlike the book but the attempted humour almost entirely misses the mark. The human characters are portrayed as complete imbeciles and the aliens are not much better. I accept that compromises have to be made when adapting novels to screen, but why bother with the license in the first place if you are simply going to use the title and ignore the plot?