domingo, novembro 20, 2005

king arthur

This is a movie that pretends to take the King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table from the legend format to make the possible true story based in real facts.
Despite that, for a movie that claims to be based in a historical research, it has some (huge) historical blunders.
The movie starts with the Roman Empire withdraw from Britain, which had occurred in 407 AD
Artorius Castus was a real roman officer who really did command the Sarmatian Foederati at Hadrian’s Wall. However, he died around 200 AD.
Furthermore, Cedric, the Saxon Warlord who fought against the Britons with his son Cynric, had done that in the early’s 500.
Now, if you can forget the historical blunders, you have a nice medieval movie, with a nice medieval war, filled with arrows, small trebuchets, swords, axes and a love story.
Nothing new from Hollywood land.
But, if you like movies past in ancient times, with bloody battles and love story’s… This is a nice movie to see in a Saturday afternoon.
My score is 6/10