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Summary: Terrific Family Movie
Review: Surprisingly funny. Nice mix of action and romance. Happy ending. A great show to watch with your kids. What more can you ask?
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Summary: Great Family Entertainment
Review: The King's Guard was a fantastic film with great sword action. Eric Roberts was totally cool as the bad guy. Costumes and weapons were very authentic. The princess was beautiful and the out-takes at the end were hilarious. They should do a sequel or better yet a TV series.
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Summary: TRUTH, HONOR, COURAGE AND CHIVALRY
Review: This fine Medieval tale of a proud king will fill your heart with a longing for the noble days of knights and castles.
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Summary: I always hated that hat.
Review: This movie tries very hard to be good. And by god I try not to get to heavy on these films because I love them so much. But this is a mixed bag that just seems a little confused. It is almost a Musketeer/pirate cross. The fencing goes from good to terrible, and that is a big shame as Eric roberts is damned good. If anyone has seen By the sword you know what I'm talking about.
The camera work goes from good to terrible. What is good about the film is that it can be watched with kids, it is very swashbuckling in nature, it has Eric Roberts and some of the characters are adoreable even though they are steryotyped. If you like swash and buckle movies give it a watch.
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Summary: For the ten year old Muskeeter.
Review: Treachery, villainy, swordplay, noble secret love and a princess in peril: what more could the average ten year old would-be Musketeer ask for?
Set in the days of chivalry at sword point, "The King's Guard" is the tale of the "last stand" of a princess (Ashley Jones) being taken to a marriage that will save her father's throne and the young noble Guard (Trevor St. John) who secretly loves her, against the traitorous ex-Guard (Eric Roberts) who wants her and the greedy Lord (Ron Perlman) who wants her dowry.
This movie has nice costumes and I think that's where most of the money went. Ninety-nine percent of it takes place in one setting. There are no horses although the DVD cover shows a cavalry. The acting runs the spectrum from almost-painful-to-watch (Jones) to oh-good-someone-knows-what-they're-doing (Perlman, Roberts). The swordplay, although decently choreographed, is done too hesitantly by most of the actors to be truly exciting.
People who are into the Renaissance Fair, SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) and LARP (Live Action Role Playing) scenes may be able to glean some inspiration from the costumes and sword play.
Although there is much fighting there is no blood or gore so this would be an excellent family movie for anyone with young children going through a swashbuckling phase.
There are some funny bloopers after the end credits.
Worth a rent for gamers, worth a rent/buy used for youngsters.
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Summary: Nice costumes - shame about the movie ...
Review: What a waste - Eric Roberts looks bored, the tremendously talented Ron Perlman tries hard to lift the appalling script and cope with the almost non-existent direction, but even he couldn't save this one. Absolutely dreadful. With hardly any swash and even less buckle, the best thing in it was the costume design. Oh, and the out-takes at the end. I would recommend fast-forwarding to the bloopers, and don't bother with the movie itself.
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Summary: You Know You're In Trouble When They Can't Afford Horses!
Review: You know you're in trouble when they can't afford horses and the actors have to pull the carts!
As much as I like Eric Roberts, this movie sucked. It was boring, the dialog was stilted, the fight coreography sloppy, and there was very little of Eric Roberts in it. He's a fine actor, but he just couldn't carry this movie by himself and nobody else was helping.
You can watch this as a family movie, but it would probably bore the kids to death.
If it were possible to give a film no stars, this would be it! So save your money, and if you want to buy a really good Eric Roberts film, I suggest Nature of the Beast, with Lance Heinricksen (one of Eric's best bad guy rolls!)or Race Against Time (he actually plays the good guy in this one!).
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Summary: I loved it!!!
Review: You know, I do Renaissance Faires all over. . .I've done reenactments and I know history, so as far as ACCURACY goes, this movie is going to dissapoint. HOWEVER . . ....it's NOT A DOCUMENTARY, you'll find that it is QUALITY entertainment with ALL the elements that make a wonderful story. The Hero is young and attractive. He and his ragtag bunch go up against insurmountable odds and win the day with cool heads and careful planning. The villains are CLEARLY villains with no ambiguous motives, despite swordfight upon swordfight, there is no real 'violent' imagery (blood and gore).
The hero gets the girl and they all live happily ever after.
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Summary: I loved it!!!
Review: You know, I do Renaissance Faires all over. . .I've done reenactments and I know history, so as far as ACCURACY goes, this movie is going to dissapoint. HOWEVER . . ....it's NOT A DOCUMENTARY, you'll find that it is QUALITY entertainment with ALL the elements that make a wonderful story. The Hero is young and attractive. He and his ragtag bunch go up against insurmountable odds and win the day with cool heads and careful planning. The villains are CLEARLY villains with no ambiguous motives, despite swordfight upon swordfight, there is no real 'violent' imagery (blood and gore).
The hero gets the girl and they all live happily ever after.
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