Entertaining, but ultimately forgettable.

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

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

Misguided, miscast, and completely misconceived, the wretched King Arthur is one of the grittier, more earnest failures to appear this summer.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 9, 2004

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 3, 2004

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 30, 2004

Attaches itself to the Arthurian legend like some parasitic worm

| Jul 29, 2004

A title card says this King Arthur, grimly directed by Antoine Fuqua, is based on the latest research into the mythic past. Maybe so. But one can't help thinking the research that really counted was that into the more recent box-office charts.

| Jul 15, 2004

Gladiator lite.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 15, 2004

I loved the notion of the Dark Ages as the Wild West with swords. Thumbs up.

Full Review | Jul 12, 2004

A snooze, overcast and drizzly both on location and on the pages of the script.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 11, 2004

It's hard to care about a valiant groping for accuracy when a story is so badly told you can't tell what the devil is going on.

| Jul 10, 2004

If this is history demystified, give me myth.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 10, 2004

By going back to its origins and dusting itself off, the King Arthur story has proved itself to have a very contemporary resonance.

| Jul 9, 2004

Having omitted virtually everything of interest from Arthurian legend and fact, Fuqua and Franzoni substitute a plot apparently borrowed from Fuqua's Tears of the Sun.

| Original Score: D- | Jul 9, 2004

Profoundly stupid and inept, but it's an endless source of giggles.

| Jul 8, 2004

If King Arthur is as magnificently ridiculous as any Bruckheimer picture, its thuggish charms, which owe as much to Monty Python as to Sam Peckinpah, more than pick up the slack.

| Jul 8, 2004

Though King Arthur is set in ancient times, there's not much difference between this movie and Fuqua's recent film Tears of the Sun.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 8, 2004

It's a solid, somber, rousing piece of studio zirconium: cobbled together from Gladiator, Braveheart, Lord of the Rings, The Magnificent Seven, and five tons of Hollywood hooey.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 7, 2004

That the movie works is because of the considerable production qualities and the charisma of the actors, who bring more interest to the characters than they deserve.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 7, 2004

A fine pretender to the historical action crown Ridley Scott's Gladiator reforged.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 7, 2004