A Knight's Tale

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I had some good expectations with this movie. The movie looked alright and I liked the medieval aspect. What went wrong? The movie is more of a kiddie to pre-teen flick that is also FAR too long. (132 minutes!) More problems here as the almost all of the characters are unlikeable and annoying, the princess has a ridiculous hairstyle, the acting is wooden, the story is long and dull, and worse yet, the movie soundtrack here feels totally awkward. There is even some silly product placement as a nike stripe is forged on Ledger's armour. Huh? The story gets truly lame as Ledger decides to lose over and over again for the princess. How lame. Why would she ask him to do that?! I think winning over and over again is a better way to prove your worth. One more bad thing, as everyone dances in the hall, they dance to some teeny-bopper crap music. Ick. I thought Ledger should have fallen for the cute blacksmith babe instead. I sure would have. The Last Word: What an awful movie. I fell asleep while watching this and it was still on! Jeez... For what I saw, this sucked. Wanna know what's really sad? This could have been an excellent movie. Skip this dud and go watch Dragonheart instead.

...i.e. something that tries not to sell itself on a purely historic basis, but for entertainments sake. I watched the film when it first came out at the pictures with a bunch of D&D type friends that I have. I loved it, others weren't so keen....but all agree it was 'entertaining'. Watched it again a few nights ago with my Dad, and I guess it tempered my view a little as it wasn't LOL funny often enough - but enough for me to sit through it again and enjoy it again and be entertained again. Anachronism - try having a clock tower ringing in the background of Julius Caeser, 1500 years before the clock is invented. Not arguing over what music was and wasn't present (when truthfully nobody has a clue due to aural traditions being much unrecorded). Worth watching, but take it on face value.

Fun little tale of a dirt poor lad willing to go all out for his lady love, his honor, and to prove he is as good as any other warrior. Plenty of laughs from a zany character or two and a grand adventure with plenty of old world jousting, pageantry, and costumes. Loved the way the producers wove hard rock tunes and today's lingo into the show's fabric and made it seem, usually anyway, as thought it fit that time span. Cool flic.

As soon as I saw the fans singing and clapping to "We Will Rock You" I thought "this is not very realistic". Of course, that was when I had gone in expecting a film like Braveheart or The Patriot, with real historical lessons. A Knight's Tale was nothing like either of those. After you get past the first one or two scenes, everything really grows on you. The humor is, yes, cheesy at times, (the Nike armor) but I still laughed. Chaucer was great, the villain was definitely evil, and the jousting/action scenes were very well done. Put all that together with some other funny sidekicks and a little romance and you've got a pretty good flick. Definitely a must see more than once, and a must buy video/DVD when it's out!

Probably one of the most boring movie watching experiences I've ever happened right here.This was a badly conceived film that lacked any sparkle and tried to wow you by including modern day music in a medieval setting.The film seems to take forever to end and i had to force myself to stay awake watching it with a friend who for some reason unbeknown-st to me loved it.Im sure Heath Ledgers talents stretch to better limits to what we have here but if his career was to be weighed up with this film he'd have about as big a future as the bloke who played Flash Gordon in 1980 (although that was a great flick).No A Knights Tale is a boring misadventure set against a dull and uninspiring backdrop.It wants to be romantic but it is in no way touching or heartfelt.It wants to be funny but i barely smiled.It wants to be an action flick but I've seen more action in an episode of Coronation Street. To summarise a weak attempt at being different that doesn't pay off and leaves the viewer begging for the credits.I even had the bad fortune to see the extended cut.Films like this should have a boredom warning on the front of the box. Terrible. Did i mention its rubbish?

Clearly, you need to be in your wee teens to enjoy this movie. Ok, it's not the music or the historical accuracy I care about in this movie, and indeed, it claims no accuracy in either field. But that's rather the point, and an interesting idea, but sadly this is as original as it gets. Every character fits neatly into the classic Hollywood stereotypes; the unorthodox, handsome, honest, jovial, happy-go-lucky hero (and his companions) on the one side (Heath Ledger), and the conservative, thoroughly evil, treacherous, conniving antagonist (Rufus Sewell), who is ever plotting the hero's downfall, on the other. It's the classic cliché - the good guy is all good, and fights honourably; the bad guy is all bad, and fights dirty. And of course there has to be a woman between them, who naturally favours the good guy. This childish lovestory is completely uncalled for, and the moment our wannabe hero eyes Jocelyn (Shannon Sossamon), the rest of the movie becomes too predictable to bear. At this point, I started chewing on my ticket, as I sat there in the cinema(it seemed like the thing to do, under the circumstances). The clichés just kept mounting, and it took every ounce of my willpower to stay the duration of this movie. There wasn't a single element of surprise in the entire film, and this doomed the film from the very beginning. It's the American dream, isn't it (AKA your run-of-the-mill fairytale)? Here's the peasant hero, who becomes a knight and gets the princess. Of course, since his being a knight is a lie, this will have to be revealed (and of course it's the evil adversary who busts him), but wait! Here's Prince Edward to the rescue, because the hero was nice to him earlier. The peasant becomes a bona fide knight, and can finish the movie. This movie COULD have been made good, if only the clichés had been avoided. The worst clichés are: I The love plot (it's identical with those in your average bed time story) II The stereotypes (even worse here than in 'Gladiator') III The father (can someone give me a good reason why HE should be dragged into this mess?) But worst of all, the most unforgivable element in the entire film... (SPOILER ALERT, I guess...) ...is when the hero, badly wounded, heroically jousts against his nemesis WITHOUT ARMOUR. This is the most nauseating, dishonourable and despicable thing I've ever seen. Was this scene supposed to arouse any other emotions than pure hatred? Sure, there were laughs, several hilarious moments, but not nearly enough to save this turkey. And I thought the lady blacksmith was far more attractive than that damnable princess anyway (if you have to have a love story, THAT's the way to go). My rating: 1/10, because that's as low as the scale goes.