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In Reply to: RE: Boorman's Excalibur, very polarized reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, what do you think? posted by PhilJ on September 22, 2013 at 08:58:23

The cast contained some actors yet to gain fame/notoriety at that time, but did in later years.
Liam Neeson
Helen Mirren
Patrick Stewart
Gabriel Byrne (to name a few)
And it contained some actors destined to remain obscure.
I thought the directing/acting with regard to Lancelot was over the top and just plain bad. Bad taste. Bad acting.
And the betrayal scenes re: Lancelot / Guinnevere were also overdone.
Nigel Terry as King Arthur seemed mis-cast. A light weight actor in this role. ....'did not carry it.
Nicole williamson as Merlin was bad. At times trying to inject a sense of comedy, and failing. At other times he just looked and acted wierd. When you think of the mythological character Merlin, this actor in this role does not come to mind. Ian Mackellan (from Fellowship of the Ring,as Gandolf the Grey)would have been an exceptional Merlin.
On the other hand I thought the film had good atmospherics conducive to imagining what these Dark Age times may have been like to live through. And the musical score was good. I thought that the opening scene with Siegfried's Funeral March as the background score was involving.
An uneven. Not all bad. Perhaps mostly bad. And memorable for me as a disappointment.
-Steve

Edits: 09/22/13

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