A demystified take on the tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Screenwriter: David Franzoni
Stars: Clive Owen, Ioan Gruffudd, Keira Knightley
The magic is gone, leaving a dreary, generic action movie.
Antoine Fuqua (born January 19, 1966) is an American film director. He directed the award-winning film Training Day alongside Tears of the Sun, King Arthur,
as Arthur
as Lancelot
as Guinevere
as Tristan
as Gawain
as Galahad
as Bors
as Merlin
as Dagonet
as Cynric
as Cerdic
as Jols
as Marius Honorius
as Ganis
as Bishop Decoy
as Bishop Germanus
as Vanora
as Lancelot's Father
as Mental Monk
as Merlin's Lieutenant
as Roman Officer
as Pelagius
Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer
Editor: Conrad Buff IV, Jamie Pearson
Casting: Michelle Guish, Ronna Kress
Director Of Photography: Slawomir Idziak
Original Music Composer: Hans Zimmer
Costume Design: Penny Rose, Louis Joon
Executive Producer: Ned Dowd, Chad Oman, Mike Stenson
Associate Producer: Bruce Moriarty, Morgan O'Sullivan, Pat Sandston, Paul Tucker, James Flynn
Production Design: Paul Cross, Dan Weil
Sound: Peter J. Devlin, Lon Bender, Colin Ritchie, Neil Collymore, James Harrison, Orin Beaton, Peter Gleaves
Tagline: Rule Your Fate.
Genres: action, adventure, drama, history, war
Certificate: PG-13
Categories: king arthur, sarmatian, knights of the round table, 5th century, hadrian's wall, knight, saxon, britain, roman empire, female warrior, merlin character, sword, ancient rome, cavalry, woods, magician, final battle, paganism, sarmatia, sword and shield, bishop, duel, great wall, bow and arrow, sword fight, catapult, horse, archery, tribe, freedom, frozen lake, viking age, axe, invasion
Year: 2004
Runtime: 126 min
Country: USA, UK, Ireland
Language: English, Irish, Welsh, Latin, Scottish Gaelic
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1
Sound Mix: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Misguided, miscast, and completely misconceived, the wretched King Arthur is one of the grittier, more earnest failures to appear this summer.
Maybe I'm too close to the material, maybe I wanted more from Bruckheimer and Fuqua than they could ever be expected to deliver.