But, are critics willing to make the journey alongside the directors stylized reimagining?
As the first batch of reviews pour in, the answer is, well… not exactly.
There are too many phony-looking special-effects sequences of giant marauding elephants and magical eel creatures to get to.
EWs Chris Nashawatywrites in his C+ review.
Hunnam and his charismatic band of merry pranksters get lost in the sea of pixels.
Which is a shame.
BecauseKing Arthurcould have been a rollicking blast.
Instead its just another wannabe blockbuster with too much flash and not enough soul.
Id also recommend cutting down on flashbacks.
Some things never change.
The action sequences are mercifully few and far between, but theyre all drowned in godawful CG.
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Hunnam and his charismatic band of merry pranksters get lost in the sea of pixels.
Which is a shame.
BecauseKing Arthurcould have been a rollicking blast.
Instead its just another wannabe blockbuster with too much flash and not enough soul.
But Hunnams competing with so much ridiculous window-dressing here.
Hunnam brings nothing to a nothing role.
Jude Law fares only moderately better as Vortigern, the uncle who killed Arthurs father and usurped his throne.
A villain either needs to be complex or be played with scenery-gnashing intensity.
Both are also acceptable.
Hes just…there, along with a heaping handful of unnecessary characters.
Some of them die, but theyre too ill-defined to have gotten attached to, so who cares?
