The Village Voice, July 7th, 2004
Hack hawk down: Bruckheimer blitzkrieg stifles Arthurian epic's revisionist ambitions
KING ARTHUR
Directed by Antoine Fuqua
Touchstone, opens July 7
BOOGIE KNIGHTS
Another ornery boar leaping atop the new millennium's pig-pile of demi-historical and/or magick-stuffed battle sagas, King Arthur is, onuie surface, a familiar parade of McEpic flourishes: calamitous (but decidedly bloodless) combat scenes, anachronistic Asian sword antics, hilltop posturing, helicopter shots, and thundering one-liners. But there are differences, namely in the provenance of David Franzoni's screenplay. Apparent...
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