#Guy ritchie mike the spike king arthur movie
#Guy ritchie mike the spike king arthur portable

Just look at the final battle between Arthur and this Mortal Kombat character in some dark alternate dimension.

#Guy ritchie mike the spike king arthur movie

Ritchie has taken a historical piece and revamped it into a videogame/comicbook-esque action movie for the youngsters. It feels more like a superhero movie with Arthur being an X-Men type character with a supernatural weapon. And alas all the giant creatures, watery squid witches, demon knights and supernatural/superhero abilities we see are of course all bullshit to make this movie more exciting.Īnd that's the real problem here, this movie doesn't really feel like a historical film about King Arthur. The sword Excalibur is also thought to be entirely fictional. Characters such as Merlin and the knights of the round table are thought to be entirely fictional. Castles didn't actually exist during Arthur's life, they didn't turn up for at least another 500 years. This isn't too much of a problem though because the Arthurian legend has many versions, angles, viewpoints etc.But for example, the actual existence of King Vortigern is as equally questionable as Arthur himself. So its obvious that various elements of the Arthurian legend have been jettisoned or rejigged. Pretty sure no one was called Mike or Blue or 'Goosefat Bill' mind you I'm also pretty sure no one used the word 'fuck' back then either. You know what I mean, a group of fast talking cockneys with stupid names describing events which involve other folk with equally stupid names. There are a few scenes which are 100% pure Ritchie which was.awkward. Apparently Ritchie thinks everyone in the UK has a cockney accent. Everyone speaks with a cockney accent which is completely bullshit but this is a Guy Ritchie movie after all. But to race swap two of Arthur knights, two Englishmen of legend, is honesty unforgivable.Īs for the cast on the whole, its fine, nothing spectacular, but fine. In fact it would probably be relatively historically accurate. It would be perfectly acceptable to have included some new characters that came from other realms, such as Africa, the Middle East or the Far East. OK so let me be straight here, if Ritchie wanted to include diversity in this movie, that's fine with me. The fact he's called George gives no clues but at least he seems to be created for the film. Not only that but Sir Tristan is also portrayed by a black actor (Kingsley Ben-Adir), and in the end we get a knight who is of an Oriental background (not sure where, I'm guessing China). Turns out in this Guy Ritchie directed version of events Sir Bedivere is played by Djimon Hounsou. Its also around this point you start to notice the casting, and I'm gonna have to bring this up. All this kinda leaves you wondering why he didn't do this straight away, and why he even needs an army.

There he casually takes everyone out including his arch nemesis Mordred and wins the day.

#Guy ritchie mike the spike king arthur portable

So he casually grabs his trusty sword Excalibur, gallops towards the giant battle elephants by horse taking out all enemies, leaps across a huge drop between Camelot's ramparts and the elephant (the horse presumably falling to it death) and hacks his way into the huge portable armoured mount on top of the elephant. Later on expect giant bats, snakes, rats, a large eagle and a whopping mega gigantic snake that actually eats people, oh yes.īut the other rather silly thing that happens, Arthur's father Uther Pendragon is watching as his army is getting wiped out and Camelot is being destroyed.

In the opening battle sequence of this movie I was shocked, gob-smacked! Firstly the visuals are undoubtedly incredible, expected but even still, whoa! But wait what's this? Gigantic battle elephants that wouldn't look outta place in a Lord of the Rings or 300 movie? Yep looks great but literally what the hell? Of course this is just the start of numerous gigantic animals we will see. All of this and much more comes under what is known as Arthurian legend. Along with Arthur other apparent legends have also been scooped up and added such as Merlin, the Sword in the Stone (a different item to Excalibur in some tales), the lady in the lake, the Holy Grail and various knights such as Lancelot. Arthur was supposed to have beaten the Saxons and established an empire over Britain, Ireland, Iceland, Norway and Gaul. The King who is said to have defended Britain against the Saxon hordes in, umm.a long long long time ago. So here in old blighty we have this sprawling legend of one Arthur Pendragon, King Arthur, King of the Britons.