This is a film devoid of soul.

| Original Score: 1.0/4.0 | Sep 13, 2020

Summer action fare with just enough intelligence to put it above the mindless action films that usually litter multiplexes this time of year.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 16, 2019

Clive Owen is a very dour plonker of an Arthur and has zero chemistry with Keira Knightley.

| Jan 25, 2018

The track record for film adaptations of the Arthur mythos is pretty shaky, but [this is still] the worst of them all.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 7, 2017

Entertaining, but ultimately forgettable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 24, 2010

The interminable battle scenes are limply choreographed and unexciting. This is one king that's best left alone.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 11, 2010

Fuqua creates a very grim and stylish mood that fits what the concept is attempting to accomplish very well.

| Apr 29, 2009

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 14, 2007

Guinevere, no dainty princess she, is a kind of hardened medieval feminist, and the aggressor to Arthur's bashful but equally driven warrior, in both bed and on the battlefield.

Full Review | May 29, 2007

In many ways this movie tells us far more about the values and age in which we are living, than the one it pretends to be returning us to.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 23, 2007

A brash departure from the legend that retains the round table, but that's about it. Still, the contemporary echoes make the Dark Ages relevant again and the movie, while longwinded in parts, overcomes its shortcomings.

| Original Score: B- | May 2, 2007

It nods in the direction of tons of potentially interesting developments of plot, theme and character, but doesn't bother to follow through on any of them enough to pay off.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 25, 2006

...remains an instantly forgettable, wannabe epic.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 26, 2006

Maybe I'm too close to the material, maybe I wanted more from Bruckheimer and Fuqua than they could ever be expected to deliver.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 13, 2005

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 5, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 14, 2005

Underrated, revisionist version of the Camelot legend; one of the year's 10 best

Full Review | Jan 5, 2005

In seeking to demythify the Arthur legends, the filmmakers wind up creating a new mythology, one that is probably just as fanciful as those it attempts to replace.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 10, 2004