King Arthur

KING ARTHUR (2004) - July 7, 2004
Oh man, I should have seen Spider-Man 2 again. Antoine Fuqua proves that he is a terrible director, and that Training Day was just a fluke. This was a bad, bad movie. It contained no characters worth caring about (with the exception of Ray Winstone, who was easily the best thing about the movie). Clive Owen was decent enough as Arthur, but his character was so bland it was impossible to care about him (his character never progessed beyond being anything but the "noble warrior"). Stellan Skarsgard and Til Schweiger, as the villains, were ultra-underdeveloped, and about as three-dimensional as Dastardly and Muttley. So without any characters worth caring about on either side, the movie became boring very quickly. Why should I care about the climactic final battle if I don't care about any of the characters? Or anything else, for that matter? It probably didn't help that the movie was very obviously cut from an R rating to a PG-13 (not that any amount of violence would have helped). Plus, the characters spend most of the movie on a pointless mission that has almost nothing to do with the final battle. So the movie was essentially like a hollow shell of a historical epic -- it went through all the motions, but without any decent characters... What's the point? That's all I can really say about this movie. What's the point? *1/2