The boy who wanted to be king

From time to time, the cinema tries to modernize the clbadic stories. So is Don Quixote stories of Grimm brothers and the legend of King Arthur, one of the greatest of all times. In the eagerness to create a product that attracts the attention of new generations, the studios are betting on modernizations and adaptations that do not always work very well.

The boy who wanted to be king has mistakes and blows that lead to a medium-length film.

Louis Ashbourne Serkis [sonof Andy Serkis Instead of Arthur, the story focuses on Alex, an ordinary boy who lives in London with his mother. Her courage comes from facing the school's intimidates (Lance and Kaye) and helping her frightened friend Bedders. One night, while he escapes the couple who wants to hit him because of this confrontation, Alex falls into an abandoned work, sees a sword stuck in stone and removes it, thus becoming the "new Arthur"

In making this story, the film cites the return of the next great king when the world lacks good leaders and world peace is threatened. In a second or third layer, it speaks briefly about current heads of state, but there is not much political development in this sense, since the film is entirely designed for children. The result of this sentence is actually that a sleeping Morgana ( Rebecca Ferguson virtually unrecognizable with a thick makeup) begins to feel the weakness of men and therefore sees their chance to come back. here appears a negative point, or at least curious, of The boy who wanted to be king . For anyone familiar with Arthur's story, Morgana is extremely dangerous and poses a difficult threat to heroes. But his presence in this film is rarely used. Yes, there is a climax with a big battle, but before that, the villain lived totally in the plane of ideas and it is therefore difficult to visualize the fear that he represents in this story.

If Morgaine is the pillar of evil that remains in the background, Alex receives help from Merlin, interpreted in its recent version by Angus Imrie and by Patrick Stewart when it takes its true form. Anyone who expects many scenes with Professor Xavier of X-Men can be disappointed, as the magician gets most of the film in his teenage form to establish a link with the main cast. Imrie is a good actor and seems focused on every moment he is on the scene. What's really upsetting him is the simplicity of the script, which forces Merlin to make idiotic gestures to evoke his spells. In addition to other aspects of the film, this seems to have been done to please children (and it will probably work), but this makes the movie very simplistic for the parents who accompany them.

The Most Amazing About The Boy Who Wanted To Be King is the way he tries to update a clbadic tale, but he's already coming up with an outdated tale. The dialogues of the film are extremely obvious, which is not justified by the target audience. There were many ways to present the same story with simplicity, but with a little more charm. This feature is accentuated by the failures of the support distribution. If Louis Ashbourne Serkis and Angus Imrie do a good job, the same can not be said of Tom Taylor and Rhianna Dorris who they play both brutes. The lines of both are already very common and both can not add personality to the text. Another thing that makes things worse is the conception of production. Arthur's sword, although having a different shot here and there, is very basic, just like any other sword. The armor that heroes encounter during the course of history is also mediocre and because of this, she long loses the little personality that she could have.

In many ways, the film of 2019 seems to have been shot in the 90s. Of three acts and the journey of the complete hero (from the refusal of the call to return home), The boy who wanted to be king is not exactly bad, but extremely simple, in a way that even evokes the nostalgia of afternoon sitting but soon becomes forgotten. For those who have children and want to introduce them to the story of King Arthur, the production can be a good gateway, but there are much more comprehensive and fascinating adaptations of the round table.