The Green Knight

The Green Knight

An epic fantasy adventure based on the timeless Arthurian legend, The Green Knight tells the story of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's reckless and headstrong nephew, who embarks on a daring quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight, a gigantic emerald-skinned stranger and tester of men.

  • Released: 2021-07-29
  • Runtime: 130 minutes
  • Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
  • Stars: Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, Joel Edgerton, Sarita Choudhury, Sean Harris, Kate Dickie, Barry Keoghan, Erin Kellyman, Ralph Ineson, Emilie Hetland, Anthony Morris, Megan Tiernan, Noelle Brown, Youssef Quinn, Aaron Edo, Margeaux Wright, Tyrone Kearns, Helena Browne, Brendan Conroy, Ethan Dillion, Chris McHallem, Atheena Frizzell, Donncha Crowley, Patrick Duffy, Janet Grene, Simone Haines, Tyrone Kearns, Tom Leavey, Anaïs Rizzo, Joe Anderson, Nita Mishra, Tara Mae, Emmett O'Brien, Sam Uppal Lynch, Adam Karim, Ruth Patel, Rose Patel, Rachel Quinn
  • Director: David Lowery
 Comments
  • gainadan - 13 June 2024
    disappointing
    The story is missing key elements, and it is messy and confusing. Some key points of the original story are so changed that it simply doesn'tmake sense. The distribution it does not respect historical blood lines and embrace the new craziness, including other ethical groups by force. The actors and the used technology are more then enough to create a create a very good movie and are simply wasted. WhileI was watching I did not know the original story or the details and I was waiting for everything to make sense. It just didn't. I was so crapy that I had to find out where they took inspiration for. I was even more disappointed after reading the original tale. Such a waste of resources.
  • jarrid-81155 - 25 March 2024
    Pretentious circle jerk
    Cinematic circle jerk off the utmost degree. Garbage everything. You can literally tell the director and writers were all glancing over at each other during the creative process and sniffing their own farts. Nothing about this movie is good, nothing is worth watching. Set in medieval London, yet everybody is middle Eastern or black and everything is awful.

    Truly terrible and garbage. I'm writing this now just to fill in the minimum characters required, but my God this movie is terrible.

    A24 is sure up it's own A with this nightmare. Such a shame, because most of their productions are not this pathetic.
  • qbmpgj - 26 January 2024
    Agonizing, tedious, underwhelming.
    Big fan of medieval films but this one was like being stuck in a classroom for 2 bloody hours whilst students do fingernail screeches across a chalkboard. The pacing was terrible, cinematography amateurish, the storyline felt contrived and tediously drawn out without purpose. The main character falls into scenes like a rucksack of dead palavers. I lost count of the times I asked "Wait, what the heck was all that in the story for, what's the point?" The scene at the forest's edge with the battlefield scavengers was totally unnecessary... as were the St Winifred scenes, the giants in the mist, and others. Like On Golden Swamp or Sophie's Story, I'm adding this one to my recommended viewing to people I really don't like.
  • norsonbotrel - 4 December 2022
    No story, no sense.
    Just 130 minutes of wasted time.

    The movie does have a storyline, but no one seems to know where it's going to go. They kept shooting everything and than the edition department should does a miracle.

    Well, there are no such thing as miracles.

    The makeup and effects are pretty decent, but still are a waste of good resources.

    The bottom line is a completely weird collection of nonsense scenes with confusing scenarios and very weak connection between the many "parts".

    Cherry over the top is an additional 10 or so minutes after the story actually has ended, but they insisted with a few more awkward ideas.
  • SpaaceMonkee - 4 October 2022
    A Plodding, Visual Splendor
    The Green Knight came highly recommended. I went in wanting to love it, but left disappointed. The cinematography and visual execution in the film are outstanding (with the exception of the weakly CGI'd fox). The movie drops the viewer into a fully realized medieval fantasy, complete with talking creatures, witchcraft, a ghost, and even a traveling crew of giants in a segment that made little sense. It's fortunate that the scenes are so dazzling, because you'll be staring at them a while. The movie trudges along for over two hours.

    For plot, the Green Knight tells the story of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's unaccomplished nephew who appears to spend much of his time drinking or fraternizing with a prostitute he fancies but is unwilling to progress the relationship any further beyond transactional. On Christmas, at the King's feast, the eponymous Green Knight appears, a creature with a human shape but made of trees and plants. He proposes a game: anyone who strikes him will receive his powerful ax, but in one year, that individual must go to the Green Knight's home, an earthen chapel, and receive the same strike in return. Gawain beheads the Green Knight, achieving instant fame throughout the kingdom. As the following year slips away, Gawain then faces his obligations and sets off on the journey to meet the Green Knight.

    It's a film that asks Big Questions, about the meaning of being human and facing one's death, about honor, duty, and chivalry, and even about love. After raising these issues early on, once Gawain begins his travels, the film then instead forefronts the slog of the journey. Maybe the unpleasantness of duty is part of the point, but it's not enjoyable viewing either. Several of the stops along the way seem nothing more than pretty, pretentious asides - dreamlike aspects of the film's world that they just couldn't cut during editing - rather than necessary portions of plot. The movie was stuffed with these aspects and overlong as a result, resulting in a viewing experience that felt tedious by the time the credits rolled.
  • spopeFL - 7 August 2022
    An ending worth experiencing
    A visually beautiful film with many masterful one shots. Take your time enjoying the seemingly slow scenes as you contemplate the implications of the antagonist decision making. The ending is a spectacle, the type of conclusion worth discussion and debate!