- Critic Score
- Most active
- Publication
- Most clicked
-
80It has more hilarious throwaway lines than most comedies offer up as their best jokes, and it is consistently inspired, energetic and, most important, light on its feet.
-
80Lawrence is miraculous, as always.
-
75Martin Lawrence finally gets to show what he can do as a screen comedian.
-
70It's a shrewd little comedy that uses good British actors to challenge its star, who rises to the occasion.
-
63Though the humor of Black Knight never quite achieves the giddiness of a Monty Python comedy, Lawrence creates a character more lovable than either Bill or Ted on either of their excellent adventures.
-
58Lawrence, as always, exerts the appeal of a con man too lightweight to buy into his own con. He'd be funnier, though, if he didn't insist on being the only funny thing in the room.
-
50We had hoped for just a funny movie, but instead we get some laughs and plenty of yawns.
-
50It's hard to find the movie unpleasant, but it's hard to imagine it causing any strong reaction at all.
-
50It relies on short bursts of Lawrence's zaniness, punctuated by an occasional joke about stinking feet or vile breath. For his admirers, that will be plenty.
-
40Too bad it's not so funny. Almost every gag in Black Knight feels forced and contrived, as if the movie is desperate to squeeze laughs out of us.
-
40Goes by relatively swiftly and painlessly, despite the completely ragtag nature of its construction, but there is not an inspired moment in it.
-
38The best thing about Black Knight is when it finally says goodnight.
-
33Isn't merely bad, it's utterly flavorless and the filmmakers are either too lazy or too cynical to even pretend there's a story behind Lawrence's 21st century homeboy shtick in 14th-century garb.
-
30The lame and apparently tacked-on ending (which seems to crib footage from 2000's "Gladiator"), suggests the rather terrifying prospect of a Roman-era sequel. Five words: Be afraid, be very afraid.
-
30Arriving so soon after "A Knight's Tale" -- and the 25th-anniversary reissue of the classic "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," Black Knight is a textbook example of too much, too late.
-
30This time-travel scenario is by now shopworn, and the normally riotous Lawrence, a manic and gifted clown, is hamstrung in his efforts to eke humor from the anemic script.
-
25But in the end everything comes down to Lawrence, who has yet to develop a truly distinct comedic sensibility.
-
25Dismal time-travel comedy that makes "Big Momma's House" look like "Citizen Kane."
-
25If this cheesy, cheap-looking update of "A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court" had been co-produced by the Ku Klux Klan itself, it could hardly be more repellently stereotypical.
-
25It's fitting that Black Knight, the new time-travel movie with Martin Lawrence, should arrive at the start of the Christmas season, because the season gives us the perfect word to describe it: humbug.
-
20Martin Lawrence can be hysterically funny. You'd never guess that from watching the remarkably wasteful endeavor known as Black Knight.
-
20A movie that knows its audience. Its underlying philosophy might be: why try harder when this is all they expect?
-
20Jamal (Martin Lawrence), starts trying to make the best of a bad situation, which becomes our job too.
-
10Suited only for unwitting under-twelvers (though even they may not outlast the midpoint evaporation of Lawrence's shtick).
-
0There's precious little to like about the witless and decidedly tedious Black Knight other than the fact that it's unlikely to generate a sequel.
-
0"It's no longer funny, but he refuses to give up the joke." That just about sums it up except for the film's shopworn plot -- and its wretchedly cheap production design.
prev
next
Page:
- 1
User score distribution:
-
Positive: 7 out of 10
-
Mixed: 1 out of 10
-
Negative: 2 out of 10