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King Arthur
Touchstone Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for intense battle sequences, a scene of sensuality and some language
Starring
Clive Owen,
Ioan Gruffudd,
Keira Knightley,
Mads Mikkelsen,
Joel Edgerton,
Hugh Dancy,
Ray Winstone,
and
Ray Stevenson
A spectacular, epic tale of one man's destiny to become a king. (Touchstone Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Action
|
Adventure
|
Drama
|
War
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| WRITTEN BY: |
David Franzoni
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Antoine Fuqua
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 21, 2004
Video: December 21, 2004
Theatrical: July 7, 2004
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
130 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA / Ireland |

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80
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
An engrossing, highly intelligent reimagining of the legend of Arthur.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Not a bad movie, although it could have been better. It isn't flat-out silly like "Troy," its actors look at home as their characters, and director Antoine Fuqua curtails the use of computer effects in the battle scenes, which involve mostly real people.

75
Portland Oregonian
Marc Mohan
An action film without a completely empty head, and these days, that's as rare as Excalibur itself.

70
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Impressively made and well acted by an exceedingly attractive cast, this dark tale of ceaseless conflict is adult entertainment and will likely disappoint viewers expecting a "Camelot"-like love triangle.

70
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
The film boasts all the hallmarks of the '50s historic epic save the presence of Tony Curtis.

70
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
If King Arthur is as magnificently ridiculous as any Bruckheimer picture, its thuggish charms, which owe as much to Monty Python as to Sam Peckinpah, more than pick up the slack.

70
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
By going back to its origins and dusting itself off, the King Arthur story has proved itself to have a very contemporary resonance.

67
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
In a movie like this one, a little madness is its own Holy Grail.

63
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Forget all that accuracy business and just enjoy the movie for what it is: a large-scale, passably engrossing tale of valiant knights doing valiant deeds.

63
USA Today
Mike Clark
For better or worse, but surely satisfying novelty needs, Jerry Bruckheimer's King Arthur is set much earlier than usual and against the crumbling Roman Empire, which may even (or not) be historically legitimate.

63
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
King Arthur does to this legend what "Troy" did to Homer, with one important difference: It's a better movie.

63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Overall, King Arthur sinks into a grim, gray torpor - though it's an odd, not unentertaining movie. The approach is different, if not edifying or convincing.

60
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
Conceptually compelling, but the interest ends there, in part because the humans get squeezed to the margins in favor of pseudo-history and clashing battleaxes.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
While Keira Knightley brightens things up as Guinevere, the casting is otherwise lackluster.

50
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Plays like a remake - not of "Knights of the Round Table" (1953) but of director Antoine Fuqua's previous "Tears of the Sun" (2003).

50
Premiere
Peter Debruge
I'd gladly take the legend over this dreary pseudo-historical mumbo jumbo.

50
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Everything is pre-medieval and unwashed, but with Antoine Fuqua at the steering wheel King Arthur is still a comic book, if a little more "Classics Illustrated" in tone than we'd have the right to expect.

50
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
Fuqua deliberately downplays the fantastical in King Arthur, but the gritty faux realism wears itself out quickly. You've seen one lancing, you've seen them all.

50
Los Angeles Times
Manohla Dargis
A nutty, often enjoyable farrago of craft and cinematic sampling, King Arthur moves fast and loose, and is almost aggressive in its absence of an original idea, in and of itself a Bruckheimer trademark.

50
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Luckily there is an element of broad, brawny camp that prevents King Arthur from being a complete drag.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
This glum and grandiose new King Arthur has little to do with the Camelot monarch we've come to know through books and film.

50
New York Daily News
Staff (Not credited)
This version has action, yes, but the love triangle among Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot is diluted, and there's nothing exuberant about a dutiful slog through the muck.

50
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
If only the sum of this thunderously self-important "true story" outweighed its often fabulous parts, but it resorts to throwing up hollow icons in that most ignoble of losses, the expensive mediocrity.

50
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Strains credulity at every turn.

40
Empire
Ian Nathan
Nothing aligns, nothing builds, and before you know it were hip-deep in the big showdown -- a free-wheeling frenzy of choreographed combat that neglects to find much space for the cast.

40
Film Threat
Clint Morris
Thankfully, the dependable Ray Winstone ("Sexy Beast") is in the film too and gives a droll, slightly-more realistic take of an uncultured abet to Arthur's side.

40
Time
Richard Schickel
The weather is always inclement, the protagonists are all muddy when they're not bloody, King Arthur's Christianity is muscular but joyless, and Guinevere is often daubed with blue paint. No, folks, we're not in Camelot anymore.

40
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
King Arthur is a snooze, overcast and drizzly both on location and on the pages of the script. Owen is too classy, too James Bond-handsome to realistically portray the not-yet-King Arthur.

40
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
It's hard to care about a valiant groping for accuracy when a story is so badly told you can't tell what the devil is going on.

40
Newsweek
Marc Peyser
Unfortunately, none of this is very much fun. The cinematography is dark and depressing. The dialogue is stilted. And for some reason, director Antoine Fuqua has even ditched the Arthur/Guinevere/ Lancelot love triangle.

40
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
An Arthurian tale minus everything the average person knows or cares about Arthur and his knights.

38
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
If they decided not to give us Camelot, did they have to leave us with so Camelittle?

38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
There, in its midst, stands a freeze-dried Arthur -- stripped of his legend, shivering in the cold and wondering, like the rest of us, where in hell the magic went.

38
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Too long and too full of itself to offer more than a few fleeting moments of entertainment. It doesn't take long for tediousness to triumph.

30
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Bleak, remarkably turgid, tediously violent, devoid of drama, deprived of magic, stripped of romance and, except for one of the oddest boy-meets-girl scenes in movie history, a befuddled and befuddling excuse for entertainment.
30
Chicago Reader
Hank Sartin
The result is your basic Bruckheimer action spectacle plus lots of leather, shaggy haircuts, and Celtic tattoos.

30
Slate
David Edelstein
King Arthur is profoundly stupid and inept, but it's an endless source of giggles once you realize that its historical revisionism has nothing to do with archeological discoveries and everything to do with the fact that no one at Disney would green-light an old-fashioned talky love triangle with a hero who dies and an adulterous heroine who ends up in a nunnery.

25
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The movie gives us a Round Table and a flashing Excalibur but no magic, no mystery, no mythic resonance. Mostly there's a lot of slashing swordplay that should appeal to the picture's target audience of young males.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
In King Arthur, everything goes wrong. The film combines the plodding sincerity of a Ph.D. dissertation with the brains of a high-concept Jerry Bruckheimer- produced blockbuster (which it is), and no one benefits.


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