Sunday, 18 August 2019

Excalibur (1981)



Merlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the Round Table of Camelot, even as dark forces conspire to tear it apart.

From memory: Highly stylish, very well produced and violent presentation of the saga is fascinating to watch, although it's an uneven mixture of mythology and realistic staging.

Halliwell*: "Curiously pointless retelling of a legend with unexplained flashes of realism and bouts of gore alternating with romance and modern wisecracks. Of mainly visual interest."

Maltin***1/2: "Eccentric but spellbinding, sexually rendition of the King Arthur by a stylish filmmaker working at the peak of his powers...Magnificent production values."


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