A rare treat of swashbuckling Fantasy fun

Rating: 10/10 (13 August 2014)

You will almost never see two ambidextrous fencers set to in any film anywhere. And it was pure coincidence that Carey Elwes and Mandy Pitilkin, Roberts and Inigo respectively, were brought together to fence for this movie. It was, according to the director, unknown in advance that either of them were that good, or that they'd have such chemistry that fencing for the fun of it distracted them from filming all through the production.
Although it's a low-key Fantasy in terms of magic and monsters, the fairy-tale style carries the story nicely. A dry tongue-in-cheek wit plays all the way through, with a script that's almost entirely classic lines from beginning to end.