{"id":557,"date":"2017-08-22T16:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T22:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=557"},"modified":"2017-09-10T16:40:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T22:40:55","slug":"movie-king-arthur-legend-of-the-sword-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/22\/movie-king-arthur-legend-of-the-sword-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: King Arthur &#8211; Legend of the Sword (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/a\/a4\/King_Arthur_LotS_poster.jpg\" alt=\"King Arthur: Legend of the Sword\" width=\"220\" height=\"326\" \/>King Arthur: Legend of the Sword<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nYear: 2017<br \/>\nRating: PG-13<br \/>\nLength: 126 minutes \/ 2.1 hours<\/p>\n<p>Years ago, I watched Guy Ritchie&#8217;s first film, <em>Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels<\/em> (1998). I thoroughly enjoyed the comedic repartee, well-paced action, and simple heist scenario. Afterward, I decided to watch the rest of his films (omitting <em>Swept Away<\/em> (2002) for obvious reasons). Films like <em>Snatch<\/em> (2000) and <em>RocknRolla<\/em> (2008) held very similar premises, but even in his other films like <em>Revolver<\/em> (2005), you could see the distinctive style Ritchie has when he shoots his films. In hindsight, not all of these films are great, but they were certainly entertaining for me.<\/p>\n<p>Enter <em>Sherlock Holmes<\/em> (2009), and this big-budget film gave Guy Ritchie a bit more mainstream attention, as it also sported Robert Downey Jr. on a career hot streak. The striking visual style remained, which also helped in the sequel, <em>Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows<\/em> (2011). Because I also enjoyed the 60&#8217;s period piece, <em>The Man from U.N.C.L.E.<\/em> (2015), I was equally excited for <em>King Arthur: Legend of the Sword<\/em> (2017). After all, Ritchie had shown he knew how to do action\u00a0in his previous films, and a story centering around King Arthur and Excalibur would likely have a lot of action.<\/p>\n<p>When I finally saw <em>King Arthur<\/em>, I wanted to like it more. Sure, there were fragments of Guy Ritchie&#8217;s style in this film, including an occasional bit of dialogue back-and-forth, some quintessentially\u00a0Ritchie cinematography, and a few fantastic action sequences, but it just felt flat concerning\u00a0the\u00a0plot. Half the time, I had no idea what the characters&#8217; motivations were, or what they were trying to accomplish, and I had a pretty basic understanding of the Arthurian legend going into this movie.\u00a0Perhaps the reason it wasn&#8217;t as entertaining as I wanted was that it wasn&#8217;t a buddy film. The constant, humorous dialogue between characters is truly what makes a Ritchie film great, and this movie had\u00a0barely any of it at all.<\/p>\n<p>A vehicle for a handful of intense Excalibur action sequences, I give <em>King Arthur: Legend of the Sword<\/em> 3.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/strong><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Arthur: Legend of the Sword Year: 2017 Rating: PG-13 Length: 126 minutes \/ 2.1 hours Years ago, I watched Guy Ritchie&#8217;s first film, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998). I thoroughly enjoyed the comedic repartee, well-paced action, and simple heist scenario. Afterward, I decided to watch the rest of his films (omitting Swept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,2],"tags":[349,728,727,726,13,8],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-0-stars","category-movie","tag-349","tag-guy-ritchie","tag-king-arthur","tag-king-arthur-legend-of-the-sword","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}