King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword review: the exact point where lazy meets frantic
During the opening moments of Guy Ritchie’s frantic, sloppy fantasy-babble epic King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword, viewers may wonder whether the theater somehow got the reels out of order. In an age of digital presentation, that shouldn’t be possible. But it’s otherwise hard to explain why the movie opens so abruptly, with an epic-scale battle that appears to be the climax either of Peter Jackson’s Return Of The King, or of a film adaptation of Shadow Of The Colossus.
Audiences remotely familiar with the King Arthur myth will certainly be surprised to see King Uther Pendragon (Eric Bana) throwing down against the “sorcerer-mage” Mordred (Rob Knighton) in the first few minutes of the film. Bringing in King Arthur’s final villain a…
