Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1984)

Great Film overall

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green KnightThe worst thing about the Round Table was it never had enough chairs for everyone.Fortunately, a squire – like the one in this fantasy – makes an excellent bench.When the mythical Green Knight (Sean Connery) storms King Arthur's court and challengers the Knights of the Round Table to a contest of courage, only a lowly page, Gawain (Miles O'Keeffe), is brave enough to accept the duel.But when young Gawain fails to behead the Green Knight, he is given exactly one year to solve a riddle or the knight will return to decapitate him.Despite its valiant efforts to bring the Arthurian era poem to vivid life, this 1984 British effort is plagued with poor production values, uproarious wigs, and feeble performances. Those factors – and more - contribute to the film's obscurity.Luckily, in the Middle Ages you would probably be dead of the black plague in a year's time.Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

Yes, Sean Connery did not want to be Bond forever and for the most part you can say he has done a rather good job of doing roles other than Bond. Then there are the head scratchers like that turn as a villain in the very dull "Avengers" movie. Or like here, where he decided to say the heck with serious acting let me be in one of those horrible films with one of those guys who can not act a lick in this case Miles O'Keefe, also seen in the dreadful "Cave Dwellers", which was also a sequel to another one that I have heard is bad itself Ator. Granted the movie "Zardoz" was strange too, and it made no sense as well, but it had a certain style and actually seemed to work even though there are still parts of it I have no clue as to what they were about. This one is just bad with an ending that makes one go what the heck just happened there. Did they not remember to write a good ending so they had to end it in the most vague possible manner. Not really much to say about this movie, only that Sean Connery is the only reason I gave this movie a two because he is a favorite actor of mine. However, he does not really add anything to this one, but it just makes the movie surreal just because an actor of his caliber is in it.

Juvenile fantasy/adventure with an impressive cast of old reliables (Sean Connery, Peter Cushing, Trevor Howard, Lila Kedrova, Douglas Wilmer and Wilfrid Brambell) all operating below-par alongside the resistible - indeed wooden - presence of would-be star Miles O'Keefe (fresh from two similarly low-brow Ator films). Bafflingly, Connery went on to the equally unappetizing and silly HIGHLANDER (1986)...even if, I have to say, that one's something of a guilty pleasure for me!The hairstyles designed for the film give new meaning to the phrase "bad hair day"! Besides, the look of the film is pretty cheap (I watched this via MGM's pan-and-scan DVD, which certainly did it no favours); the death-knell is delivered, then, by the inappropriate and ultra-cheesy electronic score! Certainly harmless in itself but overlong and not exactly rewarding in any way; strangely enough, the director had already tackled the story a decade earlier in GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT (1973), which is yet another film that I haven't had the opportunity to catch up with since missing out on it on local TV in my childhood...though I can't say that I'm particularly looking forward to it now!

This is hilariously bad,which is some sort of reason to bother seeing it.The charisma free O'Keefe struggles to play an Arthurian knight, Sir Gawain, but no more so than the rest of a distinguished cast, including Sean Connery as the Green Knight.Connery looks embarrassed throughout, as well he might. It is a mishmash of Arthurian legend, medieval history and myth quite lavishly shot, but the giveaway is the producers - the Golem Brothers, makers of more cinematic rubbish than probably anybody else in the history of cinema, providers of homes for actors on the slide. Connery's career was in one of its troughs at the time. The miracle is he climbed out of it to become the sexiest man in the world. Not even Michael Caine could have made a worse career choice.