Rent King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
2.8 of 5 from 765 ratings
2h 1min
- General info
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- Synopsis:
- Guy Ritchie brings his dynamic style to the classic Excalibur myth that traces Arthur's journey from the streets to the throne. When his father is murdered and his uncle seizes the crown, Arthur is robbed of his birthright and must grow up the hard way in the back alleys of the city. But once he pulls the sword from the stone, his life is turned upside down and he is forced to acknowledge his true legacy.
- Actors:
- Charlie Hunnam, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Jude Law, Djimon Hounsou, Eric Bana, Aidan Gillen, Freddie Fox, Craig McGinlay, Tom Wu, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Neil Maskell, Annabelle Wallis, Zac Barker, Oliver Zac Barker, Geoff Bell, Poppy Delevingne, Millie Brady, Nicola Wren, Wil Coban, Bleu Landau
- Directors:
- Guy Ritchie
- Producers:
- Steve Clark-Hall, Akiva Goldsman, Joby Harold, Guy Ritchie, Tory Tunnell, Lionel Wigram
- Voiced By:
- Lexi Wolfe
- Writers:
- Joby Harold, Guy Ritchie, Lionel Wigram, David Dobkin
- Aka:
- Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Collections:
- 2017, A Brief History of Coronations on Screen, CinemaParadiso.co.uk Through Time
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 25/09/2017
- Run Time:
- 126 minutes
- Languages:
- Castilian Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1, English Audio Description Dolby Digital 5.1, English Dolby Atmos, French Dolby Digital 5.1, Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Castillian, Danish, Dutch, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, Icelandic, Italian Hard of Hearing, Norwegian, Swedish
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Arthur With Swagger - Charlie Hunnam is a gentleman, a hunk and a rebel
- Sword from the Stone - Go on set with director Guy Ritchie as he breathes new life and luster into England's most iconic legend!
- Parry and Bleed - Charlie Hunnam and other cast members get a crash course in swordplay
- Building on the Past - Watch the creation of medieval urban life as Londinium is built from the ground up
- And More!
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 25/09/2017
- Run Time:
- 126 minutes
- Languages:
- Castilian Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1, English Audio Description Dolby Digital 5.1, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1, Mandarin Dolby Digital 5.1, Polish Dolby Digital 5.1, Russian Dolby Digital 5.1, Thai Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Cantonese, Castillian, Chinese, Complex Mandarin, Danish, Dutch, English Hard of Hearing, Estonian, Finnish, French, Greek, Icelandic, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Simplified Mandarin, Swedish, Thai
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Arthur With Swagger - Charlie Hunnam is a gentleman, a hunk and a rebel
- Sword from the Stone - Go on set with director Guy Ritchie as he breathes new life and luster into England's most iconic legend!
- Parry and Bleed - Charlie Hunnam and other cast members get a crash course in swordplay
- Building on the Past - Watch the creation of medieval urban life as Londinium is built from the ground up
- And More!
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 25/09/2017
- Run Time:
- 126 minutes
- Languages:
- Castilian Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1, Czech Dolby Digital 5.1, English Audio Description Dolby Digital 5.1, English Dolby Atmos, French Dolby Atmos, German Dolby Atmos, Hungarian Dolby Digital 5.1, Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Polish Dolby Digital 5.1, Russian Dolby Digital 5.1, Thai Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Arabic, Cantonese, Castillian, Chinese, Complex Mandarin, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, German Hard of Hearing, Hungarian, Italian Hard of Hearing, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Thai
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Arthur With Swagger - Charlie Hunnam is a gentleman, a hunk and a rebel
- Sword from the Stone - Go on set with director Guy Ritchie as he breathes new life and luster into England's most iconic legend!
- Parry and Bleed - Charlie Hunnam and other cast members get a crash course in swordplay
- Building on the Past - Watch the creation of medieval urban life as Londinium is built from the ground up
- And More!
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Reviews (18) of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Rubbish - King Arthur: Legend of the Sword review by RH
Could only watch 15 mins
A waste of 175 million dollars (criminal waste of money)
Ok for kids about 7 or 8
Guy Richie as usual up his own ***e
2 out of 2 members found this review helpful.
Great Action - Good Humour - King Arthur: Legend of the Sword review by RB
Well you either like Guy Ritchie films or you don't. I thought that this was great fun full of action and didn't expect it to be traditional which is probably why I enjoyed it so much!
2 out of 3 members found this review helpful.
Raving bonkers reboot of King Arthur legend complete with Cockey multiculti geezers + CGI monsters - King Arthur: Legend of the Sword review by PV
I am in 2 minds about this reboot - it's sort of Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels + King Arthur, a baddie king, some monsters, snakes etc, some fit birds, and some blood and guts, and loads of multiculti Cockney geezers. Oh and loads of CGI.
It starts terribly - for me (teenage boys probably love the start!) - and is all a bit too Lord of the Rings at times (and those movies bore me rigid).
But then it does pick up with a simple revenge and betrayal plot JUST as in Gladiator and SO many other movies. Though to be honest I preferred The Sword in the Stone or other King Arthur movies.
This follows the fashion for casting black actors in historical drama - but really, were black Africans leading armies in 7th century Britain? It's absurd as casting white or Chinese actors as Zulus, when you think about it.
One niggle: using the word 'England' is WRONG as England itself did not exist until Alfred the Great (died 900AD) and his son who united England from various kingdoms.
The word they should have used is BRITAIN - the name of this island (which they always refer too).
This is especially true as King Arthur and Merlin are thought be many to come from the west, or Wales (which in the 7th century was a place of warring princedoms too) which is next to the west of England Glastonbury/Stonehenge region. The Welsh town Carmarthen even means 'Merlin's Town'!
They use the word ENGLAND for American audiences, I think, but it irritates and it factually wrong BUT THEN I don't mind so much fantasy dramas like this based on myths clouded in time taking liberties - I do mind when supposed factual historical dramas do the same (as with The Crown, or U571 or Argo or MANY other movies).
2 stars.
1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.
Critic review
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (aka Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur) review by Mark McPherson - Cinema Paradiso
Don’t bother looking for any historically accurate elements in Legend of the Sword. This is not the textbook version of King Arthur you read about in literature class, but the amped up comic book adaptation you’d read between classes. You know the one; the version where giant elephants plow through castles, wizards cast spells of incineration on armies, martial artists spring from dojos and kings wield magical swords in times of war. It’s all very loud, overblown and slickly edited with Guy Ritchie’s trademark directing style. At least, for the first six minutes.
Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur could use more Guy Ritchie and less Zack Snyder. The film is at its best when utilizing Richie’s familiar filmmaking tactics of staging heists and following our heroes on a chaotic chase. It’s as if he took the cool elements of Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, applied to the rather dreary sword and sorcery genre. But when Ritchie doesn’t have his fast flair on display, his picture settles into the typical and tired elements of your average summer blockbuster.
Charlie Hunnam steps into the role of a muscle-bound Arthur, performing greatly with his fists, despite stumbling with his tongue. Having lost his parents of royalty in a mutiny, the king-to-be grew up in a village brothel, quickly told in montage without much fat. While the film does glaze over this origin of his life, there are still far too many flashbacks of his parents’ deaths, replayed almost as much as the Zapruder film in JFK. You’ll get to see every angle of this tragic pathos where an evil family member takes out Arthur’s mom and dad, the only big reveal being that of the origins for the sword in the stone. No grassy knoll though.
The current king of Londinium is Vortigern, played by a surprisingly subtle and sinister Jude Law. He is conspiring with a disgusting octopus creature to attain more magical powers to rule over Londinium and eventually take out the pesky Arthur and his band of rebels. He has his moments, but never really comes into his own as a villain. This is mostly because we never get to see him jump into combat, summoning a CGI demon to fight his battles for him for climactic showdown.
Since most of the movie is a cavalcade of computer graphics, Arthur must team up with a mage (Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey) to counter many of Vortigern’s armies and magical powers. I assume the mage is Guinevere, but she is never once referred to by name. When not making a weak attempt at jumping in on the witty script, she spends most of the movie casting spells from the shows of birds and giant snakes. Like most of the supporting cast, strong as they are, everyone exists for the sole purpose of Arthur without much personality of their own.
The movie continuously speeds up and pumps on the brakes, never settling for either Ritchie’s slick style or an executive’s wet dream of special effects galore. It’s as if Ritchie was trying appease the younger teens of the audience with the inclusion of Arthur swinging his sword in slow motion in CGI environments against CGI enemies. I’d rather see Ritchie’s more true vision than the compromise presented on screen here. I know he can do better than just standard sword and sorcery epics and it’s not on display in this video game of a movie.