The Green Knight

The Green Knight

An epic fantasy adventure based on the timeless Arthurian legend, The Green Knight tells the story of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's reckless and headstrong nephew, who embarks on a daring quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight, a gigantic emerald-skinned stranger and tester of men.

  • Released: 2021-07-29
  • Runtime: 130 minutes
  • Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
  • Stars: Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, Joel Edgerton, Sarita Choudhury, Sean Harris, Kate Dickie, Barry Keoghan, Erin Kellyman, Ralph Ineson, Emilie Hetland, Anthony Morris, Megan Tiernan, Noelle Brown, Youssef Quinn, Aaron Edo, Margeaux Wright, Tyrone Kearns, Helena Browne, Brendan Conroy, Ethan Dillion, Chris McHallem, Atheena Frizzell, Donncha Crowley, Patrick Duffy, Janet Grene, Simone Haines, Tyrone Kearns, Tom Leavey, Anaïs Rizzo, Joe Anderson, Nita Mishra, Tara Mae, Emmett O'Brien, Sam Uppal Lynch, Adam Karim, Ruth Patel, Rose Patel, Rachel Quinn
  • Director: David Lowery
 Comments
  • parnhun - 18 June 2024
    Too much symbolism; trying too hard
    It could have been good. The premise of the story and the cast set it up to be atleast a cult classic. Yet I'm unable to find any redeeming qualities. The last 3 minutes of the film does make up for an hour of hyperbole and stretched meaning and symbolism. At moments it's a riff off the Odyssey. Others it's a weak attempt at Tolkien. In the end, it ends up to be a tale I won't choose to remember. Dev Patel is great even with a poor script and odd cinematography choices. I often rewatch fantasy films for ideas on imagery and story-telling. After this initial viewing, which I had to stop numerous times because it was that hard. I won't watch The Green Knight again.
  • jbass-45409 - 26 March 2024
    Just not very good
    There was a lot that I wanted this movie to be that it just wasn't. That's my fault, though the fact that it failed to be just about anything else was the biggest disappointment in watching it. The actors they chose were phenomenal as well as the set pieces and overall tone were really good, and that just leaves the story.... And oh boy, did the story not make any sense even slightly. At no point during the movie was I able to coherently understand what was going on and it felt like whoever wrote and directed it meant for it to be difficult to understand so that it would be more artistic and up to interpretation. I have seen that executed well in the past, and for this movie it felt like the story took a back seat to the directors creative whims instead of working in tandem as it should.

    There's something to be said about subverting an audiences expectations, and while this movie did truly subvert all of my expectations I would not count that as a net positive. The pacing was awful, it continuously failed the law of chekhov's gun, and overused filming techniques such as the slow pan around the environment to reveal something unexpected as well as the "it was all a dream" troupe.

    I was really disappointed because I was genuinely excited to watch this movie, I thought it was going to be amazing, but that's just another expectation is subverted.