This movie is so awful it hurt! Unfortunately I committed myself to knowing any King Arthur related publication... Hence, I read all the original books of the Arthurian canon. A thing, I am sure, none of the people who worked on that movie did.
If you have never heard a thing of the Arthurian legend and just want to watch an uncomplicated fantasy movie, this could be right for you. But anybody else will cringe in agony.
The wardrobe, the lines... argh everything is just so wrong Also I'm pretty sure that the score is stolen, heard it somewhere else before!
But now for some details:
Besides these points which bothered me factually, the movie itself had nothing, really nothing like any tension coming up. Everything was extremely predictable, and predictably bad. What they probably considered funny one-liners made myself want to bang my head against a wall.
Some people here wrote about their great special effects, well, they were okay. I've seen worse, and it was only a TV production. But great is something else.
If you want so see a really great Arthurian movie watch the 1998 Merlin with Sam Neill!
If you have never heard a thing of the Arthurian legend and just want to watch an uncomplicated fantasy movie, this could be right for you. But anybody else will cringe in agony.
The wardrobe, the lines... argh everything is just so wrong Also I'm pretty sure that the score is stolen, heard it somewhere else before!
But now for some details:
- Tristan & Yseult's son is called Tristan? seriously?
- Galahad's son is called Lysanor? A pretty French name, considering the story SHOULD be set somewhen in the late 6ths/early 7th century
- where did they get those cheap porn-stars who played the Gorgons?
- why in the world would Mordred refer to himself as "The Arcadian"? The Arthurian world had nothing to do with ancient Greek! (If you put aside the theory that all great British kings descended from the Trojan Brutus)
- and even more why the eff.. why would this great evil Mordred want to kill people with the brutal force of BUTTERFLIES? o_O
Besides these points which bothered me factually, the movie itself had nothing, really nothing like any tension coming up. Everything was extremely predictable, and predictably bad. What they probably considered funny one-liners made myself want to bang my head against a wall.
Some people here wrote about their great special effects, well, they were okay. I've seen worse, and it was only a TV production. But great is something else.
If you want so see a really great Arthurian movie watch the 1998 Merlin with Sam Neill!