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A Knight's Tale
Movie Stats & Links |
| Starring: |
Heath Ledger, Mark Addy, Rufus
Sewell, Paul Bettany, Shannyn Sossamon, Alan Tudyk |
| MPAA Rated: |
PG-13 |
| Released By: |
Columbia
Pictures |
| Web Site: |
www.aknightstale.com |
| Kiddie Movie: |
It's cute but the
jousting is a little violent. |
| Date Movie: |
She might find
Heath dreamy. |
| Gratuitous Sex: |
A scene with some
perky nipples. |
| Gratuitous
Violence: |
The jousting gets
pretty good. |
| Action: |
Just the fighting
scenes. |
| Laughs: |
Chuckles here and
there and the speeches by Chaucer are usually pretty funny. |
| Memorable
Scene: |
Nothing really. |
| Memorable
Quote: |
Nah. |
| Directed By: |
Brian Helgeland |
| Produced By: |
Todd Black, Tim
Van Rellim |
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A Knight's Tale
A Movie Review |
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Leaving the theater, a couple of girls in their early
teens were in front of me. Their simple comments: "That movie
was great." "He was soooo cute." And those comments
really sum up "A Knight’s Tale." Don’t get me wrong, I
did like the movie, even with things that had no place being in the
movie, but it was a cute film, had some nice action, a story that
you could figure out from a mile away, and I laughed a couple of
times. So, let’s get to the story.
William (Heath Ledger) grew up on the wrong side of the tracks,
or at least on the wrong side of town. It’s the medieval times and
he wants to compete in the jousting and sword tournaments. Bad news
for him – he’s not a man with a royal family line. Then, as the
story would have it, his master, a jouster, dies. Seeing his chance
to change his fate he dons the old man’s armor, nearly gets his
head taken off in the joust, but still wins. William decides that he
can compete, his companions, Roland (Mark Addy) and Wat (Alan Tudyk),
aren’t so sure but go along for the ride, and they run into
Jeffrey Chaucer (Paul Bettany), naked as a jaybird, who can forge
some papers saying William is of royal lineage.
Well, William starts to compete, keeps winning, mostly because
his best competition is off fighting a war, and falls in love with
Jocelyn (Shannyn Sossamon). The climactic finish comes at the
jousting championships in London where William is exposed as a
fraud, his past coming to haunt him yet his fights coming back to
save him, and all’s well that ends well.
Most things in this movie are of the normal cookie-cutter
variety. You’ve got the love story which you know how it will end;
You’ve got the tournament side which you know how it will end; and
You’ve got the foreshadowing point which you know will save our
hero. Mix into all of that a rock soundtrack that seems strangely
out of place yet still works and well, you get "A Knight’s
Tale."
In the end "A Knight’s Tale" was stupid yet cute, and
if it wasn’t for the humorous orations of Jeffrey Chaucer, well,
"A Knight’s Tale" would have fallen flat on its face. If
you’re looking for an intriguing story, suspenseful action, and a
movie that makes you think, well, "A Knight’s Tale" won’t
be for you. But, if you just want to see a generic movie with some
action, a nice love story, and some humorous ramblings, well, you’ll
probably like it.
I’m giving "A Knight’s Tale" 3 ½ stars out of 5
because it is exactly what you would expect it to be.
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!! |
