King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword is a dull blockbuster that sends up dull blockbusters.

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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword is a fun, if sacrilegious, first step in a franchise creation — one that observes the first commandment of storytelling: Thou shalt not be boring.

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The Sherlock Holmes director has conjured up an entertaining rollercoaster that crashes through Arthurian legend, with only the occasional stall.

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How much you enjoy the extreme-ification of the legend will depend on your tolerance for Ritchie’s mad garble of images.

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Guy Ritchie's violent, unsentimental take on the beloved British tale stars Charlie Hunnam, Jude Law and Eric Bana.

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Guy Ritchie’s “King Arthur” is the story of a man’s struggle to accept his fate as Britain’s Born King.

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Arthur and Vortigern mix it up amid a lot of shenanigans, detours and filler, some bad, some good and all of it disposable.

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The seminal hero’s journey gets a punk-rock makeover in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, a sharp-tongued swing and a miss at the tale of the Knights of the Round Table.

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King Arthur is neither Guy Ritchie’s worst film nor his best, but it might well be his most frustrating.

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Guy Ritchie's King Arthur is a tonal jumble that's certainly no heir to the throne, as it's never rock-steady in approach or execution.

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'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' director Guy Ritchie treats the Arthurian legend as opportunity for another rowdy chase after an elusive weapon.

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The future of Ritchie’s series – this is the first in a proposed six installments – likely hangs on Legend of the Sword’s box office success.

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Guy Ritchie's combat-heavy Camelot is a very silly place.

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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword proceeds from the assumption that someone's got to jazz up that moldy old Arthurian legend, and Guy Ritchie is just the one to do it.

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Exiled as a boy after the murder of his parents, Arthur (Charlie Hunnam) grows up on the streets of Londinium with no idea if he’s the rightful ruler of England. Then, after pulling a mystical sword from a stone, he joins a band of outlaws to take on the king — his evil uncle Vortigern (Jude Law).

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If more "King Arthur" movies really are coming, maybe we'll get around to an investment in mythological wonder to go with the joyless chaos.

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Guy Ritchie is that fun friend whose texts you don’t always return because his energy level is always cranked up to 10, and even when you’re in the mood for him, he still wears you out.

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Fast-forwarding to the good bits means skipping the important bits.

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“King Arthur: Legend of the Sword” lumbers on for more than two hours, weighed down with oversized elephants and excessively populated action sequences.

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Guy Ritchie takes on the Arthurian legend with a raffish cast of characters and a glut of CGI.

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For all the attempts to update King Arthur to be cool and sexy, neither the character nor the film musters any spark.

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Guy Ritchie's loud, loose take on the British monarch and his ass-kicking round table is a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing.

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