Director Guy Ritchie responsible of heavy esthetic action films like Lock Stock Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch and the Sherlock Holmes got the complicated and risky task of making another famous characters from history of becoming an action hero.

King Arthur it’s been represented in so many wonderful films, like Excalibur, Lancelot of the lake, Camelot, The Sword in the Stone and Monty Python “The Holy Grail” but the idea of this film is kind of similar to the disastrous attempt from Ridley Scott of making Moses an character to the level of Indiana Jones, Neo or John Maclane. in his movie Exodus: Gods and Kings.

Trying to explain King Arthur: Legend of the Sword is very complicated, because when you finish watching this movie, you still trying to understand what was the purpose of this film.

Uther Pendragon (Eric Bana) father of Arthur ( Charlie Hunnam) king of Britons is murdered and his wife in a coup by his brother Vortigem (Jude Law) the only survivor baby Arthur is rescued by prostitutes until he becomes a grown men who survive on the streets as a fighter.

The story here seems to be very simple, but them becomes complicated filled with visual effects, video games style and filled with Guy Ritchie techniques and gimmicks, that works for his previous films, but then become an ornament or and obstacle in this film. The myth or magic of Camelot is long gone here. No story just smoke and mirrors.

I can only save the interesting and unusual original score by Daniel Pemberton.