I think the reason viewers stayed away in droves from King
Arthur: Legend of the Sword is because Writer/Producer/Director Guy
Ritchie so twisted the Arthurian legend that it turned off the core audience
from championing it.
It would have been better to rename the main characters
so the audience would get to feel part of a new story instead of bastardizing
the old one.
If you don’t know or care about the true legend, then
this is an exciting, if not overdone, movie…overdone because it has so much
CGI, you feel like giving it a valium to calm it down and play out in a way
that befits the time-period.
The film’s saving grace is Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, who
plays The Mage, or magician, driving on the unenthusiastic Arthur (Charlie
Hunnam). It’s because Arthur is
unenthusiastic that the audience asks, “Then, why should we care?” My answer is that Astrid is worth watching.
The real story is yet to be made. This one gets only a 3 out of 5.
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