King Arthur (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]
Starring: Clive Owen, Stellan Skarsgård, Ken Stott, Til Schweiger, Ray StevensonDirector: Antoine Fuqua
Studio: Touchstone Home Entertainment
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 139 minutes
DVD Release: April 3rd 2007
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DVD Review
ScreenGems King Arthur (Blu-ray) (Widescreen, Director's Cut)
From the producer of "Pearl Harbor" and the director of "Training Day," the Extended Director'sCut of "King Arthur" explodes onto Blu-Ray Disc in a blaze of hard-hitting action and glory not seen in theaters. Prepare for unsurpassed thrills as history's greatest legend roars to life in this astonishing new format. Now the adventure is longer,grittier and more explicit in this valiant tale of Arthur (Clive Owen), Guinevere (Keira Knightley), Lancelot (Ioan Gruffudd), and the Knights Of TheRoundtable. Behold the pageantry and power of every fierce battle in spectacular 1080p, while swords clash and fortresses are pounded in thunderous 5.1 48 kHz, 24-bit uncompressed audio. Catapult your entertainment experience into another realm withBlu-Ray High Definition!.
User Reviews
Arthur - Rating: 5/5
If you are any kind of Arthur or Excalibur buff, or even if you are not, this movie is excellent! It is beautifully shot and the story line is fantastic. While Excalibur deals more with the fantasy legend of King Arthur and Merlin, this movie is based on the more actual facts behind the myth and who these knights were. It makes the movie very real and moving. Clive Owen is a wonderful, humble Arthur. This is one of my all time favorite movies!
Excellent Conversion - Rating: 5/5
This Blu-ray version of King Arthur is excellent. Makes the HDTV come alive compared to the regular DVD version. Everything jumps off the screen giving the feeling of being in the scene.
Disappointingly bloody - Rating: 3/5
This film is digging up the myth used by Purcell for his own King Arthur semi-opera a few centuries ago. But he does not really improve the fable. He adds the Romans, the Roman Legion, Hadrian's Wall, and the "Roman" origin of Arthur and his knights. But it cannot reach the sublime music Purcell had wrapped the tale in. So the film can only concentrate on horror. The Roman horror of slavery and forced Christianization, under the menace of dying in some dungeon where you will be buried alive. The horror of the Saxons who do not colonize people but only conquer the land and empty it completely of their inhabitants. And even the horror of the native Britons who are pagan and fierce fighters. This reduces Merlin to some kind of spiritual if not only war leader. Arthur will decide to fight against the Saxons, hence to fight with the Britons and then to Christianize them by marrying the girl he had saved from the Roman dungeons. Of course this film has nothing to do with history and it has no real depth about the real conflict between liberty and the future, between freedom and peace, or should I say rather war? The film is then a long series of bloody battles shown in details, but that's a little bit short to make a good film that has otherwise no content.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
King Arthur Revised and Revisited! - Rating: 4/5
Excellent production, with a different point of view. If you are not a hard-core, die-hard, King Arthur fan, you will probably enjoy the movie. Notwithstanding the slightly skewed point of view, it is well-played. Where's my popcorn!
King Arthur (Directors Cut) Bluray - Rating: 1/5
Ordered in error due to lack of knowledge. Was unable to view. Blu-ray not compatible with our equipment.
