Last thursday we watched King Arthur in English-class at school. The movie is about history and politics, and time is set in 400 AD. The main charachter in the movie is Arthur. In the beginning in the movie we see him as a little boy, but shortly after that we jump many years later in time.
Arthur and other knights have worked for the Empire in many years, and now they want to be discharged from their service. They are sent on a final mission to save a Roman family. But their chief Marius, don't want to leave. Arthur finds out that Marius has captured a bunch of Pagans behind a brickwall.
Arthur decide that he want to take everyone back to Hadrians Wall, including Marius' family.But on their way they are attacked by the enemy, the Saxons. Arthur and the other knights decide that they don't want to run anymore, so they fight back.
In this battle, many of the Saxons dies. Arthur and his team used arrows of fire to attack the Saxons, in attempt to break the ice, so their enemies will die. But this doesn't quite work the way they wanted it to. One of Arthurs people then decides to go on a suicide mission. He runs over to the Saxons and burst a hole in the ice with his weapon. Because of this, many of the bad guys fall under the ice, and dies. Arthurs people then return back to their home.
I think the movie was progressive, and the story moved forward all the time. But that doesn't really change the fact that it was rather boring. The effects aren't allways that good either. The bloodspills look like flying dirt, and some of the camera-angles was confusing and fast paced. But some of the other effects were good, like the flames and the fire.
The directors could have focused a little more on the interesting parts in the movie. Like the part were Arthur drawes the sword out of the stone, and the other flashbacks. But other than that, the movie was good, though little boring at times.
