King Arthur
It's the beginning of the end for King Arthur and his knights. After years of protecting Britain for the falling Roman Empire, it's time to claim their freedom. Whoa, not so fast. One last task remains. Arthur (Clive Owen) and the gang must transport a priest and his family to safety from the Saxons, who are beginning to invade. Once there, Arthur is troubled by the conditions he sees on the priest's lands and takes matters into his own hands. He tells the commoners on his land to follow him. On his way back, his eyes gaze toward Guinevere, played by Keira Knightley. Once he returns, he aims to protect the last remnants of what he governs from the Saxons.

I don’t know about you but the Arthur legends I remember were just that: legendary. Here, director Antoine Fuqua goes completely against the mainstream stories and instead tells the tale of an uninspiring man who led his troops to battle against an enemy he didn’t have to fight at all. And maybe it was because I was dozing off a bit, but why was Knightley fighting again? When did she become an all-out warrior? It’s a different Guinevere than I remembered. All the better though; she basically wore straps onto the battlefield. As for the main villains, they weren’t too villainous, were they? At first, it was Merlin, but he eventually makes nice. The Saxon leader doesn’t show much leadership at all, not saying much and taking his time to make decisions. So is there anyone to look up to in this film? Not really, and that’s why once you get to the final battle scenes, something that might have been extraordinary 10 years ago but now poor against the likes of Braveheart, the Lord of the Rings, and Gladiator, you don’t care about it. It just needed to get resolved. 1.5 stars