Guy Ritchie is not afraid of anything. That you have to plunge into the London underworld to shoot a crime drama like ‘RocknRolla’? It submerges. What does the work have to adapt? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in two ‘Sherlock Holmes’ feature films? He adapts it. What has to go through the mincer of authors that is Disney to shoot a remake of ‘Aladdin’? Well, sadly, it happens…
Swords to the Ritchie
There are many bravado carried out by one of the authors with more character and with a more defined style of today, and among them stands out this electrifying medieval adventure with which Ritchie ventured without taking prisoners into the lands of the Arthurian myths along with a Charlie Hunnam with an unusual charisma.
‘King Arthur: The Legend of Excalibur’ marked the return of the British director to directing two years after the fantastic ‘Operation UNCLE’, and he did so with another style exercise full of action, speed ramps, slow motion and all the aesthetic flourishes of the housewithout forgetting that badass sense of humor that sets the tone of the story.
This a priori impossible cocktail, in which sword and sorcery are filtered through the Ritchie filter, hit an unfair hit at the box office, failing to recover its investment of 175 million dollars by staying in the 146 million collection. Something surprising if we consider that its cast, in addition to Hunnam, included performers such as Jude Law, Eric Bana or Djimon Honsou.
If you want to see why it failed or if, on the contrary, you want to indulge in its many pleasures, you can watch it on Amazon Prime Video from the past September 14.