Gladiator meets Knights of the Round Table

Rating: 6/10 (23 October 2007)

This had all the right ingredients: Colin Firth and his humour, Aishwarya Rai and her looks, Ben Kingsley and his acting and most of all it was a British production, so it could have been more original.
Somewhere along the way they lost it. Colin Firth took the role of the general, Aishwarya Rai killed more men than all the guys combined, Hollywood type gloriously epic music (I am glad it wasn't Indian singing, but still), some of the lamest motivational speeches of all time broke the film... all these elements broke the film.
For something that had all this raw stuff, it ended up really bad, like some sort of expensive yet unsavoury meal.
Oh, and the moral of the story: Arthur was really Italian. Born from Roman parents and raised by a Roman man and an Indian woman. ;)