Review of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) by Rutger-Kikkert — 12 May 2017

King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword is a pretty fun, enjoyable, throw-away movie with some good performances of Charlie Hunnam, Jude Law and most of the supporting cast (except for the lady who plays the mage).

The movie suffers from some issues with storytelling. It has some of those typical Guy Ritchie sequences where the story is told on a unique and rapid way. But those sequences tell actually the most interesting and funny parts of the story, but they're glossed over like they aren't of any importance what's so ever.

The movie would also be much better if it had a longer runtime, now it's a two hour long generic knights and fantasy movie with the name King Arthur wich makes it less generic. It could've been more if it had some more scenes where the supporting characters are more fleshed out (so we as audience could actually care more about them) and if it worked out those unique storytelling sequences more.

Also it is clearly to see where the money went when it comes to CGI. Some sequences have beautifl CGI others look like something straight out of an animation movie from 2005. The same with the action: sometimes it's filmed and directed beautiful other times it's hard to see what's going on.

But besides all those problems (wich by the way don't make the movie a bad watch) King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword is a good movie to watch with not too much expectations; a great movie for on tv on a friday night to watch with some familymembers or friends.

I would even recommend seeing it in theaters or buy on blu-ray (not for the full price though).