Film: No fun in Guy Ritchie’s flaccid fantasy

Pitched as a take on the Arthurian legend like we’ve never seen before, the result is one we’d never watch again

KIngsley Ben-Adir, Charlie Hunnam and Djimon Hounsou in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

Cinema

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword: Directed by Guy Ritchie, Nationwide, 12A,Rating:*

In View: Directed by Ciaran Creagh, IFI, no cert,Rating:***

The problem with Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword is that it was directed by Guy Ritchie. The cockney gangster specialist, notorious for his visual excess, uses every giddy trick in his tiresome arsenal to retell a thousand-year-old story as a supposed epic, a cross between The Lord of ...