A great fictionalised tale.

Owen is perhaps miscast in this role, but it is worth seeing for the battle scenes.

Training Day director, Antoine Fuqua, and Gladiator screenwriter David Franzoni, set out to capture the unromantic elements of what they say is the true Arthurian tale. And they do depict a gritty world where battles were frequent and bloody. Clive Owen's King Arthur, doesn't have the screen magnetism needed for the role of this noble knight and he looks uncomfortable during his frequent monologues on personal freedom. But the film makes an adequate attempt at debunking the myth that 5th Century Briton and its knights were a chivalrous lot.To me, it's the legend that makes Arthur interesting - the stuff that's been laid down in fiction, not this ambiguous, formulaic plot.