My quick rating - 5,4/10. So hard to review a movie that looks so good, has some decent performances top to bottom yet misses on so much. Yet even though it is very watchable, it isn't the masterpiece some are claiming. It is just so slow that at times I would swear, you remove the exceptional score from the equation and you would be hard-pressed to know anything is going on. I felt I was watching a compilation of scenes that happened to the same person, and were stitched together to be a movie. I did NOT read the actual poem but I really hope it is better than this flick at explaining. I know this is trying to explain the knight's virtues in some way but it never really gives an ancient tale with a message of courage, honesty, and sexual morality which from what I have read online is what the poem is about. In a nutshell, the story is about King Arthurs nephew who steps up and accepts a challenge from the "Green Knight" who waltzes into the royal court with his ultimatum. Challenge him in one year's time, well there is more to the challenge but I won't take away from the complete lack of story and spoil it LOL. Once the year is nearly up, he must embark to where the Green Knight resides and during this trip faces ghosts, giants, and thieves among other things that sound like it would be exciting. Things look great but there just isn't any excitement or wonder to any of these things. They just happen. The way to put it this: Staring at a Jackson Pollack. Yes, it looks like a bunch of random crap but in the end, you can tell it was pretty good. I haven't seen a movie that is going to easily range from love and hate, 2-9 ratings so easily. And I won't fault anyone for leaning either direction. I am just in the middle.
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