Director Guy Ritchie
Starring Charlie Hunnam, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Jude Law
Rated M
Score 5/6

Robbed of his birthright, Arthur comes up the hard way in the back alleys of the city. But once he pulls the sword from the stone, he is forced to acknowledge his true legacy – whether he likes it or not.

Okay, going into King Arthur: Legend of the Sword I didn’t read any of the reviews, though judging by some of the headlines that I read for the reviews basically said that the movie was a flop, Guy Ritchie got it wrong and criticized the casting of David Beckham, and in my humble opinion a lot of the criticism that was foreshadowed by the headlines is bullshit.

Ok so far I have never had access to the initial box office numbers of a newly released movie, so I can’t speak as to exactly how good or badly Legend of the Sword is doing at the box office but the one thing that I do know in this instant gratification world that we have created, that sometimes when it comes investing, there need to be a little bit of patience before you see a profit. After all its been about a week since I first started seeing those reviews appear in my social media.

I’ll admit it headed into the cinema I was a little hesitant about what I was about to see. Most of the movies that I have seen that where directed by Guy Ritchie had been ‘London Gangster’ movies and I honestly did not think that Ritchie was qualified to direct a movie like Legend of the Sword. But Ritchie delivered something that was amazing and brought a little ‘London Gangster’ to the Arthurian legend, Charlie Hunnam was more than capable of portraying this interpretation of Arthur, Jude Law was a great villain as Vortigern and the movie’s soundtrack is worth the price of admission. Even though it seems that he was not involved with the soundtrack, it reminded me of Bear McCreary’s work. For those of you who might not know Legend of the Sword is the first of a potential six movies so basically what we have now is an ‘Arthurian Origin Story’ and characters from the legends who did not appear in the first movie are bound to show up in later movies, all we have to do is hurry up and wait.

Now to the casting of David Beckham in a bit part, yes it was an odd choice and to quote an episode from series 8 of Russell Howard’s Good News saying that at the time ‘Beckham’s got the body of a god and the voice a munchkin’. But here is the thing in this role he did not have the voice of a Munchkin, he has worked on his voice and he was clearly acting.