The King's Guard

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Summary: Well, my 10-year-old loved it....
Review: ...but he found the story confusing. With some editing to make the movie a little simpler and perhaps a narrator to pull things together, they should repackage this one and pitch it to Disney. My son loved the swordplay and the goofy characters and couldn't stop laughing at them.

The only fun I got out of it was watching Ron Perlman, but then, I could listen to him read the Manhattan phone directory and never be bored.

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Summary: One of the worst movies ever made!
Review: Actually it is THE worst movie ever made. but that exclamation point was because I'm excited! At last i've found it! the only movie in the universe that is so awefull its actually worth watching! so rent it for the kids and watch it yourself, if you like it you have issues, if you dont itsso hilariously bad you can't really say you wasted your money now can you! Its an offer you can't refuse. honestly its [bad] with lame acting, romance, fighting, screenplay, direction (was there any?), and same sex mouth to mouth kissing. this a real [stinker]. deserves to be put above Battlefield earth (which is much better than people say) as the worst movie ever made.

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Summary: It's not Braveheart - But it's a very good little movie
Review: Alright - it's not Braveheart, but the King's Guard is an intriguing story with swordfighting, romance, good guys and bad guys. Kids can watch it and its family fun. Compared to the vast quantities of crud that's out there - you'll want to see this movie!

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Summary: Fun, Clean Movie
Review: I honestly cannot understand why some of the other reviewers have given this movie poor reviews. This is such a fun movie. It's a storybook tale charged with sword fighting, clean romance and good humor. I'm glad I was able to order one of these before you ran out of stock.

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Summary: Great movie
Review: I turned on tv a few weeks back and saw a small,but brilliant movie about kings guards. I was impressed with the production..the sets and designs looked really professional and the acting was above average. I am not sure why this movie was not shown in the theatres, or I don't remember seeing it. But I highly recommend it for family viewing

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Summary: FANTATSIC MOVIE
Review: I've always loved movies with teh whole medieval-plot to it, and this one is acceptionally good! I loved the costumes, and they all were fantatsic actors ; the parts where the two men are fighting over the hat, and the other two men are acting for the princess, the lady, and her escort, really brought some humorto the movie, the swordplay was fantastic. To those who're just worried about the costumes, who cares if they were victorian or somehting?! The actors were fantastic, and the costumes were good enough to fit the movie. I especially liked Katie(female soldier) the captain, the princess , and William(the soldier) but, i loved the whole cats & movie, I reccomend this video to anyone who just wants to watch a action/adventure type movie, with some humor in it.

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Summary: OH how did this get made!
Review: OK we caught this film on the TV a couple weeks ago and it is sooo bad it is hysterical.
I've been doing historical costuming for years and the costumes were just wrong! While some were nice they were all such a hodge podge of different eras as to completely inacurate. It was as if they got all the historical and SCA/Fantasy reinactors they could find who had their own suits and made this movie. And the totaly riduculous dresses on the women that just look like they took a modern long velevet dress and put a VICTORIAN (1800's) hoop skirt on underneath it.
And as if that wasn't bad enough it was soo badly acted by some and not so bad by others so you would get caught up in the good part and then roll on the floor laughing at the bad!
Eric Roberts and Ron Perlman have a few brief scenes but it was soo bad.....
The only reason I give it two stars at all is because they have a bloopers real, a-la Jackie Chan movies, at the end that was just great! That would have made a better film than the film!

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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: 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: 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.