First Knight Critique

First, let’s start with Lancelot, who is depicted as a thug for hire instead of the personification of the purest knightly ideals. In fact, it's hard to imagine a less likely figure in the part of this legendary hero, uttering such pompous lines as, "I never believed in anything before, but now I believe in Camelot," or something very like it. At least Richard Gere spares us an attempt at a phony British accent.

This was probably in order to save the special effects, every reference

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The love triangle, supposedly the most compelling aspect of the film, is unfortunately abruptly ended by a villain who just wrenches the life out of the legend and this film. In the end, First Knight is probably the last choice for anyone who wants to see a good movie of the Arthurian legends, which cannot even marginally, in any way, pass as a historical document of any import. As hard as someone tries to find even one optimistic part of the movie, three pessimistic facets jump out and glare at you. Perhaps the reasoning behind this was the idea to make a "revisionist" and more realistic version of Arthurian legend, but the effort is already marred by the utter disregard for historical accuracy.

There is one thing in the movie and that is when Guinevere is kidnapped, dragged through a forest, imprisoned, and then rescued by Lancelot, and nearly drowned, Guinevere's lipstick is entirely intact. to magic and plenty of Arthurian characters, including Merlin, are entirely erased.

Also at the ending when King Arthur is about to execute both Guinevere and Lancelot, he ends up asking Lancelot to be king is preposterous and quite frankly a pathetic try to give the movie a happy ending of sorts.

One of the most insolent cases is probably the movie’s inability to direct scenes featuring swordplay. That fact that such a minute detail of the movie sticks out so noticeably, shows us the tediousness of this supposed depiction of the Arthurian legend. So the solution was graceful - instead of swords the characters fight with medieval version of pistols - miniature crossbows, a great solution. What else remains is a standard action story (whose battle scenes have been outclassed by Braveheart), and a love triangle. Add all of this to an idiotic Hollywood ending, and First Knight turns out to be a muddle of the first order.

There's no Merlin, and the Sword in the Stone, no Mordred, no Excalibur and the Lady of the Lake. I still have to admit that the movie was very colorful, but ultimately it was a disappointing version of the legend of King Arthur and a poor historical document of anything.

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