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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

2017

Guy Ritchie

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

5.3

16,154

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. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Loud, bombastic and thuddingly obvious, this is a vulgar movie for vulgar times."	NEG
United States	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."	NEG
United Kingdom	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)"	NEG
United Kingdom	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)"	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"It is a grim and stupid thing, from one of the world's most successful mediocre filmmakers"	NEG
United States	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."	NEG
United States	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."	NEU
United Kingdom	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)"	NEG
United States	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"	NEG
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"One of those generic blockbusters that has nothing to say and no idea how to say it."	NEG
United States	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."	NEU
United States	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."	NEG

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