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User Reviews for: The King

Kizhe-deleted-1584360674
7/10  4 years ago
That was a good movie, not perfect by any means but still good.

The things that I liked,
The beautiful cinematography, the scenery was beautiful and I quiet frankly was taken away by the beauty of it, amazing fight sequences, the atmosphere in general truly felt like the time it was talking about.
The costume and production design is on point.
The story was quiet great (which I heard that it's based on a work by Shakespeare), I loved the story and the betrayals and the "twist" at the end.
I music is great!
I think on technical aspect it's a great movie and good for the eyes and ears.
The things I'm not very sure about,
The performance by Timothee Chalamat is good, he is indeed a great actor and does the best he can, speaking French, showing emotions and some actions scenes, he is doing great... However, something was very off about him and that was HE IS TOO SKINNY ! honestly he looks anorexic and I think the Director should have told him to gain some muscle, there are fight scenes in which I'm sure a guy as thin as Timothee would break easily, he has no muscle and that bothered me a lot, I may be nit-picking but that is how I think.

Another thing that I didn't like was the Pacing, it's honestly too long and too slow at times and there are many scenes that could be shorter, and that tends to make the movie a bit boring at times.

P.S. I really liked Robert Pattison here, he really is a very entertaining actor, I'm glad he could get over the Twilight movies and people are now seeing how much of a good actor and entertaining performer he can be.
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Splinter
/10  4 years ago
Just finished The King, a modern interpretation of parts of Shakespeare's Henry IV and Henry V, seemingly targeted at millennials.

It's common knowledge that much of Shakespeare's Henry V is based on hearsay, yet his pre-battle speeches at Barfleur ('Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.') and Agincourt ('We band of brothers') have become the stuff of legend and remain the most stirring battle speeches of our time. In The King, Henry's pre-battle speech at Agincourt is neither stirring or inspirational due to being a watered-down, 21st-century, politically correct rendition, which I found hard to stomach.

The King portrays Henry (Hal) as a pacifist and reluctant leader, a fop to Catherine of Valois and I found Timothee Chalomet's (an American) performance as Hal to be too 21st century and not in the slightest bit convincing. In fact, he seemed reluctant to carry out any of the deeds that the real Henry V actually carried out.

The battle scenes were very realistic and the cinematography was superb, but...

This is yet another nod to the PC millennials, diluting and revising both Shakespeare and history into easily digestible snack bites for the sensitive of our era.
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Roryyeung
/10  one year ago
It’s a fine half-adaptation, but suffers from the compromise it makes.

On the one hand, it is not simply another adaptation of Shakespeare - it has the advantages of taking a fresh look at the material, but for whatever reason still somehow carried across much of the fictional elements of Shakespeare’s plays. At the same time, whilst the writing is good, it lacks the poetry of a more straight adaptation (e.g. the Hollow Crown).

I do find the performances to be compelling, and in particular, find it interesting to see Henry V as a contemplative humanist rather than a victorious warlord. It’s an interesting idea (if perhaps ahistoric) and does perhaps act as a medication on more modern conflicts.

In particular, the film diverges significantly from Shakespeare’s plot significantly towards the end. It seems to try to this to change to modify the original 16th century propaganda of the play to a discussion of Realpolitik. This is a good idea in principle, but is somewhat undercut from having just watched an hour glorifying Henry.

It is also technically impressive - both the art and cinematography departments have outdone themselves - standards we have perhaps come to expect from Netflix productions.

On the whole, I admire the attempt to give a fresh take on the source material, but would rather they took inspiration from the history, rather than from a play written centuries after.
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