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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

2017

Guy Ritchie

Charlie Hunnam, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Jude Law, Djimon Hounsou ...

5.3

16,178

Fantasy. Action The young Arthur runs the back passages of Londonium with his crew, not knowing his royal lineage until he grabs Excalibur. Instantly confronted by the sword's influence, Arthur is forced to make up his mind. He joins the rebellion and a shadowy young woman named Guinevere, he must learn to understand the magic weapon, deal with his demons and unite the people to defeat the dictator Vortigern, the man who murdered his parents and stole his crown to become king. [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Loud, bombastic and thuddingly obvious, this is a vulgar movie for vulgar times."
		Peter Debruge Variety	"'King Arthur' is just a loud, obnoxious parade of flashy set pieces, as one visually busy, belligerent action scene after another marches by, each making less sense than the last, but all intended to overwhelm."
		Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Guy Ritchie's combat-heavy Camelot is a very silly place (...) The camerawork makes the Bourne films look like Bresson (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It’s reasonably good fun and there’s a great 'assassination' scene (...) The film rattles along exhilaratingly, if sometimes intermittently (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"It is a grim and stupid thing, from one of the world's most successful mediocre filmmakers"
		Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"'King Arthur' could have been a rollicking blast. Instead it’s just another wannabe blockbuster with too much flash and not enough soul."
		Bilge Ebiri Village Voice	"A compendium of all the things that make the British director so occasionally exciting and so often irritating, this new, hyper-stylized take on the Arthurian legends veers between genius and idiocy."
		Jimi Famurewa Empire	"[It] occasionally sparkles before being scuppered by generic effects, conflicting ideas and an embarrassing celebrity cameo for the ages (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Brian Truitt USA Today	"It's a messy mélange of the British filmmaker's own gangster pictures and 'Lord of the Rings' (...) This 'Sword' should have stayed in the stone"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"One of those generic blockbusters that has nothing to say and no idea how to say it."
		Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"The best and worst thing about his King Arthur is that it’s a complete mess—by turns a generic fantasy film in the house style of the Warner Bros. superhero movies (...) and a nose-thumbing, mock-cockney-fied send-up of the same."
		Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"'King Arthur' seems constantly panicked that the audience’s attention span won’t last another second, so each moment is a frenzy of sight and sound (...) and the ultimate effect is more exhausting than exhilarating."

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