Last Knights (2015)
When an evil emperor executes their leader, his band of knights – bound by duty and honour – embarks on a journey of vengeance that will not come to an end until they've destroyed their mortal foe.
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Wonderful character development!
I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.
Horrible, fascist and poorly acted
A Disappointing Continuation
The tale takes place in a fictional time and place years after "The Great Wars" when all races now live together. Bartok (Morgan Freeman) is an old master or lord whose days are numbered. He has no heir and hands over his lands to his "retainer" Raiden (Clive Owen) a person of dubious background, but who now has honor. Bartok is required to make additional tribute to the first council (Robert Russell) which he finds objectionable. Things go downhill from this point and for awhile we have to deal with another drunk Hercules movie.This was a fairly decent knight/fight film having the right amount of plot. I liked the little flashback details. Clive Owen played the role in a fairly deadpan fashion. He would not have been my first choice. Freeman does have lengthy rant about taxes, bribes and extortion generic to all government systems.Guide: No f-bombs, sex, or nudity.
The last scene of this film has got to be the worst ending I have ever seen. I never give bad reviews but had to break tradition for this movie.I love Clive Owen. He is easily one of my favourite actors. I give him the benefit of the doubt that on paper, this film must have read much better.Watch it, but know that you will never get those wasted hours back. This film makes The Room seem like The Godfather.
An old-fashioned stolid fantasy flick which focuses more on story while lacking in action until the very end. Clive Owen is good as the brooding depressive knight who is / isn't interested in revenge. The set up takes virtually most of the running time. The assault in the climax is a long time coming but is well edited and shot and feels well earned.7/10
So, visually this movie was gorgeous. It was well acted (Morgan Freeman!) and the score was wonderful. The plot, in summary:Bad guy is corrupt. Morgan Freeman tries to kill him for being corrupt. He fails. Morgan Freeman sacrifices himself for honour. Bad guy gets more corrupt and goes crazy thinking Morgan Freeman's followers are going to kill him so builds a big palace financed by bribes. All of Morgan Freeman's followers plot in silence. Emperor says "Hey bad guy, you get a promotion and I'm outlawing bribes so you can't be corrupt any more". Bad guy gets killed, so do half of Freeman's followers in the ensuing chaos. That's it. Things go back to normal, more or less. Movie ends. Commander of bad guys meets fate in a Soprano's-esque ending leaving you go "Well what happened?"So, yeah, if you like ambiguous allegories about honour and high fantasy you might enjoy this. If you like plots that make sense please look elsewhere as you're going to leave frustrated.