King Arthur Reviews
September 13, 2020
This is a film devoid of soul.
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| Original Score: 1.0/4.0
November 16, 2019
Summer action fare with just enough intelligence to put it above the mindless action films that usually litter multiplexes this time of year.
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| Original Score: B-
January 25, 2018
Clive Owen is a very dour plonker of an Arthur and has zero chemistry with Keira Knightley.
September 7, 2017
The track record for film adaptations of the Arthur mythos is pretty shaky, but [this is still] the worst of them all.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
December 24, 2010
Entertaining, but ultimately forgettable.
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| Original Score: 3/5
July 11, 2010
The interminable battle scenes are limply choreographed and unexciting. This is one king that's best left alone.
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| Original Score: C-
April 29, 2009
Fuqua creates a very grim and stylish mood that fits what the concept is attempting to accomplish very well.
August 7, 2008
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| Original Score: 2/5
July 14, 2007
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| Original Score: 2/4
May 29, 2007
Guinevere, no dainty princess she, is a kind of hardened medieval feminist, and the aggressor to Arthur's bashful but equally driven warrior, in both bed and on the battlefield.
May 23, 2007
In many ways this movie tells us far more about the values and age in which we are living, than the one it pretends to be returning us to.
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| Original Score: 2/4
May 2, 2007
A brash departure from the legend that retains the round table, but that's about it. Still, the contemporary echoes make the Dark Ages relevant again and the movie, while longwinded in parts, overcomes its shortcomings.
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| Original Score: B-
September 25, 2006
It nods in the direction of tons of potentially interesting developments of plot, theme and character, but doesn't bother to follow through on any of them enough to pay off.
Original Score: 2.5/4
August 26, 2006
...remains an instantly forgettable, wannabe epic.
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| Original Score: 2/4
December 13, 2005
Maybe I'm too close to the material, maybe I wanted more from Bruckheimer and Fuqua than they could ever be expected to deliver.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
December 6, 2005
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| Original Score: 2/5
July 5, 2005
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
March 14, 2005
Original Score: 2.5/5
January 5, 2005
Underrated, revisionist version of the Camelot legend; one of the year's 10 best
December 10, 2004
In seeking to demythify the Arthur legends, the filmmakers wind up creating a new mythology, one that is probably just as fanciful as those it attempts to replace.
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| Original Score: 5/10