I took an Arthurian Legend class in college and I will never forget it because the professor was adamant that all Arthurian stories were fan fiction. And she was right. When you think about it in that context, you can get away with literally any time period, any silly tropes, anything you can imagine.Artorius (Clive Owen) is a Roman legionnaire in charge of an elite band of Samarkandian warriors in indentured servitude to Rome. They are about to receive their discharge papers when they are tasked with One More Mission to retrieve a Roman family above Hadrian's wall before the invading Saxons kill them. Arthur and his knights must reconsider an alliance with the pagan Merlin (Stephen Dillane) to defend their adopted homeland.
This is a dumb movie by any metric. The characterizations are poor, the dialogue is boring, and the script makes zero sense. But who cares? It's fan fiction! Fuck it, Arthur is half Italian now. The knights of the round table are Russian. Guinevere is an archer. Everyone is hot somehow, even though they look like they've never bathed. Mads Mikkelsen has a hawk. Your arguments are invalid. This is not my favorite Arthur retelling but I'm not judging if it's yours. You're allowed to like what you like. It's currently streaming on Hulu.
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