Sony recently ended its trailer for baby driver, a heist thriller, by flashing the rotten tomatoes logo and 100 percent, the films tomatometer score at the time. Legend of the sword is the latest attempt at revitalizing the king arthur story. He and his troops are expecting to be relieved but are instead sent on a risky mission to rescue the roman family of marius honorius, who proves a despicable torturer of pagans. Legend of the sword currently has a 26 per cent fresh score on popular critical aggregate site rotten tomatoes. How rotten tomatoes became hollywoods most influential. Legend of the sword, opens on a war sequence that introduces uther pendragon eric bana, the father of the once and future king arthur charlie hunnam, as well as onetime king vortigern jude law. The battle scenes, dialogue, and attractive actors all place king arthur squarely in the realm of summer popcorn flicks.
And now guy ritchie has engaged in an egregious deheroing of cinema with his king arthur. Was particularly impressed by the attention to detail, i. Later, he is deeply embarrassed when he finds out that it is not arthurs sword. Presumably the famous wizard is being saved up for one of the many. I dont see any other way to interpret that information, and the 31%. Legend of the sword guy ritchies take on a medieval myth. It is a scene marked by blurry action and messy narrative introduction. According to rotten tomatoes, the tomatometer for king arthur. Here is how i think production on the film went down. Extras include closer looks at hunnam as arthur, ritchies directorial style, the set design, the stunts, and more. How king arthur was killed by a wouldbe franchise may 14, 2017 10.
Despite charlie hunnams extensive fight training for king arthur. Robbed of his birthright, arthur comes up the hard way in the back alleys of the city. Read on for christys analysis on legend of the sword and the smallerscale drama lowriders. The arthur of myth is a figure representing bravery, service, and sacrifice. Jonathan ashbach is a phd student in politics at hillsdale college. Unlike pirates, its more epic than big goof, but it runs out of. In this drama, a british soldier stationed in africa comes to believe. Historians have thought for centuries that king arthur was only a myth, but the legend was based on a real hero, torn between his private ambitions and his public sense of duty. In fact, critics on rotten tomatoes even agree that the movie suffers from terrible miscasting. Charlie hunnam and jude law star in guy ritchies version of the titular legend, which reimagines king arthur as a streetsmart hooligan who discovers his royal lineage in time to stop an evil king. The critic score was 27%, but the audience gave it a 77 %. King arthur, a historical version of the british myth, strips away the magic of camelot for the cold filth of the dark ages. Legend of the sword, starring charlie hunnam and jude law. Watch king arthur online stream full movie directv.
This week at the movies, we have some preround table action king arthur. In this interpretation of the classic tale, arthur clive owen is a cavalry officer in the roman army defending hadrians wall against rebellious britons. The kid who would be king recalls classic allages adventures and. Arthur frees one of them, guinevere keira knightley, who in. Charlie hunnams crazy warmup ended up in the movie. But once he pulls the sword from the stone, he is forced to acknowledge his true legacy whether he likes it or not. Legend of the sword, director guy ritchie took one look at hunnams intense prefight warmup, and threw the rest of the. Pricey king arthur is a box office pauper the new york. Sadly the critics only want to give a movie a great. Rotten tomatoes vice president jeff voris, middle, with senior editor grae drake, right, are filmed by creative director jimmy johenning at the beverly hills offices of. Im sure some of you have already left, siting the modernist spin and frantic energy that ritchie injects into his films as turnoffs, while others are sitting there gleefully awaiting a good time at the theaters personally, im hitormiss with ritchie, but i do love charlie hunnam, so ill.
Legend of the sword may not be the king of 2017 blockbusters, but it is the first unexpected hit of the summer movie season. A demystified take on the tale of king arthur and the knights of the round table. King arthur in this interpretation of the classic tale, arthur clive owen is a cavalry officer in the roman army defending hadrians wall against rebellious britons. The film is from executive producers david dobkin r. Legend of the sword piles mounds of modern action flash on an ageold tale and wipes out much of what made it a classic story in the first place. Warner bros wanted to make a new movie based on the legend of king arthur, and had already developed multiple takes and plans to that end.
A kid in king arthur s court is one of those childhood films that are quite forgettable. But there are times when ritchie makes his own style the star of the film, crowding out the actors and the story because neither is terribly interesting. This week, theres a decent chance younger audiences will be interested in the actionpacked new reimagining of the king arthur legend, but before you take them to see it, you may want to know what kinds of shenanigans charlie hunnam and his pals get up to in the film. Luckily, it is also a scene that is returned to multiple times over. Saying that this retelling of the king arthur story is the truth behind the legend is an overstatement of epic proportions, making the movies tagline the only thing epic about it. The critical reception section of this article cites rotten tomatoes, a reliable source, to show that 31% of professional film critics gave king arthur.
Legend of the sword, a knowingly anachronistic riff on the legend starring charlie hunnam. Despite having a pretty impressive cast sean connery as king arthur, richard gere as sir lancelot, julia. With clive owen, stephen dillane, keira knightley, ioan gruffudd. The classic stories about king arthur and the sword in the stone have been told. The legend of king arthur has been used as the basis for many films throughout cinematic history. Nevertheless, audiences seemed to like it more than. The magic is gone, leaving a dreary, generic action movie. The dvd king arthur highly recommend if youre open to an different telling of a this iconic legend. Warner bros has brought audiences a new take on the classic legend with an actionadventure film from acclaimed filmmaker guy ritchie sherlock holmes.
King arthur will be knifed by guardians of the galaxy. King arthur is a breathtakingly great film on several different levels. They ultimately picked guy ritchie, a fairly hitandmiss director who had managed to develop a fresh and audiencefriendly take on sherlock holmes. Legend of the sword is a fun, if sacrilegious, first step in a franchise creation one that observes the first commandment of storytelling.
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