Gawain (Dev Patel) is nephew to the greatest king (Sean Harris) England ever had and is willing to do a lot to impress him. So when a giant (Ralph Ineson) shows up on Christmas Day and asks who is willing to challenge him in a test of arms, Gawain seizes the chance. With one blow, he strikes off the giant's head. The giant laughs, picks his head up, and tells Gawain he has one year to come to the Green Chapel and receive the same treatment. Trapped by his own moral code, Gawain has to come to terms with his approaching mortality. A week before Christmas, he sets out on a much stranger adventure than he had planned.
This was visually stunning, which almost makes up for the fact that it is a garbage film. It doesn't even tell the most famous --okay, second most famous-- Gawain story, the one where he gets his wife. Instead, they lump in references to Barry Lyndon, of all godforsaken things, and the director's mommy issues.
It moves like a glacier and has the same ponderousness of purpose. The cast is great but the director doesn't seem to be able to get out of his own way. Very disappointing. It's currently streaming on Tubi, where it frankly belongs.
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