If you can bear the bad patches, there's something dazzlingly fun at the heart of it all.

Ritchie has reached into the medieval quiver of tales for material, but has not imposed the meta-narrative of Western history onto those stories. For this restraint medievalists should be thankful, and the critics should be a little more forgiving.

More swords, more stones, and more roundtables, please. Just not directed by Guy Ritchie.

…part of the reason that Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur film never seems to to get started is that it was intended to be the first entry in a six movie cycle of Arthurian films which was wisely canned the moment anyone set eyes on this shambles for the ages….