The mashing together of the legendary story of King Arthur, with supernatural elements such as giant animals the size of castles, to the highly kinetic film making style of modern action movies, plus the high budget visual overload of special effects, is actually not that bad of an idea. In fact, some would argue that it sounds pretty cool. I'm sure co-writer/director Guy Ritchie thought so too. It's unfortunate his vision for this movie is simply all over the place, and just doesn't quite hit the landing of what could have been a great epic film.
This movie is yet another example of style over substance. Just looking at the trailer, that's filled with quick edits, fast pacing, energetic camera angles, and stylized color filters, you can tell that this oozes with a lot of style. The familiar premise of a story itself acts like it has a lot of substance, by having multiple plot points and a whole ensemble of different characters, to give you a lot of content to chew on. The truth is that the story telling simply fails to make all those detail and information worthy of your full attention. The story just moves from one plot point to another plot point, without giving us much time to properly take it all in.
Going back to the idea of why this movie exist, the fact that it looks "cool," is pretty much all this has going for it. Some clever exchanges between characters, some crowd pleasing scenes, people that say and do neat things, fast edits of characters doing exposition about a sequence of events, to action set pieces with high production values. All that is suppose to impress you, but since it's so focused on doing "cool" things, it forgot that the most important aspect of good story telling, is in making us really care about what we're watching. By the end of the movie, I just didn't care.
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