King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Arthur's power hungry uncle Vortigern killed his father to seize the crown controll. He spends his life growing on the streets of Londinium having even no clue, whether he's eligible to rule the England. He manages to take the sward out of stone and is planning to take on the king.2
18 February 1980, East London, England, UK
2 May 1975, Leytonstone, London, England, UK
3 October 1987, London, England, UK
1963, Terenure, Dublin, Ireland
26 May 1986, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
25 July 1995, Blackpool, England, UK
May 17, 2017
A bewildering mix of solemn hokum and standard Ritchie laddishness.
May 12, 2017
This is not your father's King Arthur legend. It may not be yours, either.
May 12, 2017
An unsuccessful mix of saucy wit and portentous sorcery.
May 17, 2017
With the legend of Arthur, [Ritchie] has succeeded by going to excess.
May 18, 2017
An almost laughable amount of phallic imagery is on display at all times.
May 12, 2017
To that hallowed list of great expensive follies - "John Carter," "Ishtar," "Heaven's Gate" - let us ceremonially add another name: "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword."
May 12, 2017
Director Guy Ritchie can turn London crime dramas into cinematic lightning, but apply his fast cuts and jagged pacing to the Arthurian legend and you get, well, a brutal, bleedin' mess.
May 18, 2017
The movie becomes a long, unstoppable, barely sufferable explosion of digi-battle scenes, digi-pachyderms, digi-snake-monsters, digi-Armageddon.
May 17, 2017
Guy Ritchie's reimagining of the King Arthur legend manages to be both action-packed and yet utterly mind-numbing, with a two-hour running time that feels endless.
May 12, 2017
Ritchie has gleefully set his timeworn characters in an environment where narrative logic has no purchase. One name for this environment is subconscious dreamscape. Another is mosh pit.
May 17, 2017
Though it's excellent fan service, Covenant does not deliver the beautiful horror of the Alien series' best.
May 12, 2017
Oi! What's Guy Ritchie gone and done with King Arfur, then?
