King Arthur (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]
by Antoine Fuqua
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Actor: Clive Owen, Ken Stott, Ray Stevenson, Stellan Skarsgård, Til SchweigerDirector: Antoine Fuqua
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
Cinematographer: Slawomir Idziak
Composer: Hans Zimmer
Editor: Conrad Buff
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 139 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2007-04-03
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Touchstone Home Entertainment
Blu-ray Reviews of King Arthur (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]
Blu-ray Review: Blu-ray Review
Summary: 4 Stars
Most everyone considering this movie for purchase have seen this movie. If you haven't, you can read the overly verbose reviews from others on this page. My focus will be on the Blu-Ray product.
Video - 4/5. Displayed in 2.35:1 1080p, the video is very good. With the likes of Wall-E and Dark Knight out there to set the bar so high, older movies just can't recreate the same magic. But often times, studios will do a haphazard job of remastering their films for hi-def. Not so in this case. King Arthur is an apt hi-def translation. The film is a tad grainy, but that suits the film's directorial/cinematographical style. Fuqua wanted to show the entire range of british weather. So you get a lot of overcast, fog, snowy, rainy scenes. The dynamic color palette of blu-ray picks up every shadow, snowflake and lush greens of the country-side. Every pore on clive owen's face is visible. The slight graininess is quickly forgotten, but the incredible sharpness is remembered.
Audio - 4/5. Comes in Dolby Digital, uncompressed 5.1 48kHz 24-bit. Not a sci-fi movie, so there aren't the thunderous explosions and fly-over rear channel effects. But for a medieval set movie, the sound is appropriately crisp. The pounding hooves of the horses will supply the most bass. And the ice cracking in the 2nd act will provide some nice sound effects. You won't be using this to show off your great sound system. But for the most part, the sound is suitable if not fantastic.
Special Features - Roundtable with all the stars including Clive Owen and Keira Knightly, Antoine Fuqua and Jerry Bruckheimer. Pretty cool insight from the discussions of the key players. A Backstage featurette provides the standard "making of" bonus feature. The best bonus feature is the "trivia pop-up" mode. Random bits of history, filming anecdotes and various trivia pop up throughout the play of the movies.
If you are a fan of this movie, it is worth the blu-ray upgrade. If you don't already own this movie, definitely pick up the blu-ray version.
Description of King Arthur (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]
From the producer of PEARL HARBOR and the director of TRAINING DAY, the Extended Director's Cut of KING ARTHUR explodes onto Blu-ray Disc® in a blaze of hard-hitting action and glory not seen in theaters. Prepare for unsurpassed thrills as history's greatest legend roars to life in this astonishing new format. Now the adventure is longer, grittier and more explicit in this valiant tale of Arthur (Clive Owen), Guinevere (Keira Knightley), Lancelot (Ioan Gruffudd), and the Knights Of The Roundtable. Behold the pageantry and power of every fierce battle in spectacular 1080p, while swords clash and fortresses are pounded in thunderous 5.1 48 kHz, 24-bit uncompressed audio. Catapult your entertainment experience into another realm with Blu-ray? High Definition!It's got a round table, some knights, and a noble warrior who rises to become King Arthur, but everything else about this revisionist legend is pure Hollywood. That's not such a bad thing if you enjoyed Rob Roy, Braveheart, Gladiator, and Troy, and there's some intriguing potential in presenting the "real" Arthur (played by Clive Owen) as a 5th-century soldier of Rome, assigned to defend Roman-imperial England against a hoard of invading Saxons (led by Stellan Skarsgård in hairy villain mode). As revamped history and "archaeological findings" would have us believe, Guinevere (Keira Knightley) is a warrior babe in face-paint and Lancelot (Ioan Gruffudd) is a nonentity who fades into the woodwork. Never mind! Best to enjoy the harsh, gloomy atmosphere of Irish locations, the ruggedness of Owen and his hearty supporting cast, and the entertaining nonsense of a Jerry Bruckheimer production that strips battle-ready Guinevere down to leather-strap S&M gear while all the men sport full-body armor. Hail to the queen, indeed! --Jeff Shannon
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