The film rattles along exhilaratingly, if sometimes intermittently, like a fairground rollercoaster that occasionally stops and makes you get out and walk for a few minutes before letting you back on.
Ritchie’s geezerfied King Arthur occasionally sparkles before being scuppered by generic effects, conflicting ideas and an embarrassing celebrity cameo for the ages.
Hunnam handles the fist and sword fights better than the accent in a medieval mishmash that’s rarely magic.
All swagger and no guile, but fun in the moment.
Hunnam copes with the physical demands of the role, but even he can't survive amid all this chaos.
Amid all the sound and fury, it takes a while to realise that actually not very much is happening here at all.
Sadly, Ritchie’s more idiosyncratic flourishes don’t gel at all with the demands of delivering a mega-budget epic.
King Arthur is far from perfect but if you are happy to just go along for the ride it’s certainly entertaining enough.
Guy Ritchie’s film is low on originality, but might please devotees of his shtick.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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