King Arthur: Legend of the Sword Review

Robin Hood got his gritty prequel story not too long ago, so why not King Arthur? I must admit the trailers for King Arthur: Legend of the Sword were intriguing. They had flair, and the Arthur legend is such a classic journey of the hero story that you can do almost anything with it and still have a good movie.

The key word there being "almost." We had a King Arthur movie starring Clive Owen where they tried to do the "real" Arthur, and that sucked pretty hard. So it was with that in mind I went into Legend of the Sword with tempered expectations, but hope for something fun and different.

Well, I certainly got the "different" part because it seems director Guy Ritchie couldn't decide which particular "anything" he was going to try with this and just decided to do everything. Sometimes that does indeed turn out to be fun, but is it enough to save Legend of the Sword? Let's talk about where it went wrong enough to become a box office bomb, and of course why it made me cranky:

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