Saturday Afternoon
Dec. 11, 2021
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
on NetFlix
2017 [PG-13] 2h 6m
CAST: Charlie Hunnam, Jude Law, Astri Bergès-Frisbey
GENRES: Action/Adventure
THIS MOVIE IS: Entertaining
After pulling an enchanted sword from a stone, a streetwise misfit must accept his destiny as future king and stand up to a villainous uncle. This Arthur wears what looks like a brown leather bomber jacket, sports a 2016 movie star haircut, calls everybody “mate,” and makes a big show of not wanting to get involved in politics, much less embrace his destiny. That is, until circumstances require him to round up a crew of hyper-competent misfit outsiders and depose the kind heist-movie style, treating every skirmish and siege as if it were another vault that the “Snatch” guys were hoping to empty.