djk-38670
It has been years since I watched this movie, but whenever anyone asks me what the worst movie I ever watched ... it's this one. Yes it's pretty, but I could not believe anything that happened. I wondered if there was an in house joke where they believed it would never be released? Whenever I measure performance, quality and value this is my low bar at 0.
slightlymad22
First Knight (1995)Plot In A Paragraph: Lancelot (Richard Gere) falls in love with Guinevere (Julia Ormand) , who is due to be married to King Arthur (Connery). Meanwhile, a violent warlord tries to seize power from Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.YAWN!! This movie is the worst movie Connery has made since Sword & The Valiant. Yes I'm counting Highlander 2 in that. It is produced with a decent budget but a lot will have gone on its two main stars who are awfully miscast. As is the heroine. Both Connery and Gere are too old for the roles and Ormand is too young. Connery should make a brilliant King Arthur, all noble and dignified!! But he over acts at times and it just doesn't work, neither does Gere who has zero charisma and is totally unconvincing as Lancelot. It should be an interesting love triangle, but you are never really invested in it, and I just didn't care. First Knight grossed $37 million at the domestic box office to end 1995 as the 46th highest grossing movie of the year. One place better and one million dollars more than Just Cause. But considering this had a budget of $55 million compared to the $25 million of Just Cause. It's easier to see whIch one was considered a disappointment.
DKosty123
After seeing this, I wondered why I did? This kind of touches on the real love affair between Lancelot and Guinevere but fakes it away from reality and tries to glorify the death of King Arthur in a battle that never took place. Easily the best quality in this movie is Julia Ormund as Guinevere. She is poised, attractive and hot. Those brown eyes sparkle. She looks as good on a horse as any woman ever has.The problems are - Richard Gere, who looks wooden as Lancelot and acts like a piece of pine wood for much of the movie. His action scenes are poorly done as well. Overall, this one is just Gere being cast in the wrong role. He should have been the court jester.Sean Connery - he is too old to play Arthur and while he speaks well, it is hard to believe a young Guinevere would want to marry a man who is her father's age. The only way I would recommend watching this one is if did a nudist version as Julia Ormund would look great in the buff when she did this one. It is overblown, and the final scene with the salute to the dead King Arthur was already done, when Spock died in one of the Star Trek movies. The good of the many outweighs the needs of the few. Few viewers will need this movie.
annbreuer
This movie enchanted me when I was a 13 year old girl. Recently I spotted it on Netflix Instant and decided to see if it held up 19 years later. Uhh, no. Medieval Han Solo gallops to and fro rescuing a princess stock character not once but TWICE and in between he pressures her to have sex with him. Julia Ormond is the picture of some dude's idea of feminine perfection, alternating between girlish impetuosity, over the top expressions of feminine fragility ("It's so beautiful I'm almost frightened!"), and gazing slack-jawed at her two love interests. BARF. Richard Gere delivers a stellar comedic performance as Lancelot, sword-wielding, moat-diving, swaggering and tossing about his luxurious locks. Even Sean Connery cannot make this movie less silly. But on the other hand, young Sir Davos is featured, and that's pretty awesome.
