Director Antoine Fuqua
Starring Clive Owen, Stephen Dillane, Keira Knightley
Rated MA
Score 4/6

A demystified take on the tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

Considering that I have recently reviewed King Arthur: Legend of the Sword I thought that it was only proper that I review the last major adaption of King Arthur legend that was released 13 years ago in 2004 starring Clive Owen, King Arthur (I will admit that there might be a few other movie interpretations of the Arthurian legend that where made between 2004 and 2017 but this was only movie I could find in my collection with ease).
Now before we get to far into this a slightly interesting fact from King Arthur’s IMDB page the horse ridden by Bors (Ray Winstone) in the film is the same horse that was ridden by Maximus (Russell Crowe) in Gladiator (2000).

Okay this particular retelling of the Arthurian Legend is billed as being “The True Story Behind the Legend” but that something that probably should be taken with several grains of salt as you no doubt already learnt to do with Hollywood movies and historical movies. Now setting that aside movies and television shows that take what could be described as an ‘alternate’ take on history can prove to be rather interesting such as the Red Dwarf Episode Tikka to Ride with the Kennedy Assassination and the first of the Alien vs Predator movies with the construction of the pyramids.

I know I throw the term around a lot this term but King Arthur is a solid movie that is worth watching. There was some pretty decent performances from Clive Owen and Keira Knightley. I also liked Ioan Gruffudd’s performance it should be noted at the time I was only familiar with his work because of his tenure as Horatio Hornblower (I may have to review some of the Hornblower movies he stared in). I suppose the only downfall of the movie was that even though elements of the love triangle between Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot might have been there, it was glossed over by the filmmakers and even the relationship between Guinevere and Arthur really was not explored that heavily.