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

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Sword of the Valiant has one sole redeeming quality, and that is the ever charismatic Sean Connery, the material is beneath him, he has very little to do and the green costume and make-up looks ridiculous (in a sort of novelty value way though) but he brings dignity, menace and class to what he has and he was a lot of fun to watch.Unfortunately, that is it for the things that work. Miles O'Keefe is absolutely dreadful in the lead role, too pallid for a hero and the less said about his goofy and too 80s wig the better, and Trevor Howard and Peter Cushing (who were also incredibly talented performers) are shamefully wasted with badly written and underused characters that don't allow them to show off their acting strengths. It really does have to be one of the worst wastes of talent in the history of film. Also wasted are the locations, they are quite nice but one cannot appreciate them when the production is lit so drably, there is next to no sense of the Medieval period, the special effects at their absolute best are shoddy and when the photography is so disorganised and amateurishly uninspired.There is also one of the worst, cheapest-sounding and wildly out of place synthesised music scores in film, that would belong more in a very low-budget 80s cartoon rather than a Medieval fantasy adventure where a more rousing approach is needed, He-Man has been mentioned a few times and that isn't inappropriate. People can say all they want and say that a lot of 80s fantasy-adventure scores were of this nature, but how many other 80s fantasy-adventure film scores sounded this cheesy, with the exception of perhaps Hawk the Slayer? The childish, incredibly awkward-sounding and unfunny script (reminiscent of a rejected comedy), slapdash in editing and limply choreographed action, amateurish direction and lifeless and at times annoying characters are further problems, but it was the story that stuck out as particularly bad. There is no sense of time or place, it's very rarely exciting and very little of it makes an ounce of sense. Instead it reads of a series of scenes from different medieval tales cobbled together with no relevance to one another, giving it a disjointed at best and incoherent at worst feel.Overall, an awful film apart from Connery, and it would be high up in the list of films that wasted its talent the worst. 1/10 Bethany Cox

To give "Sword of the Valiant" its due, this film is a valiant attempt at presenting a story about a chivalrous knight in its absolutely purest form. The princess Linet (Cyrielle Clair) plays the damsel in distress shamelessly and unrelentingly; making the bra burning feminists shake their heads in horror and disbelief. Sir Gawain (played by former college football captain Miles O'Keeffe) perfectly fits the stereotype of the knight who wants to rescue the damsel in distress. Ronald Lacey captures the villain Osward to a tea, including his pettiness and his lasciviousness. Only Sean Connery (playing the "mysterious" green knight) seems to fully appreciate the fact that he's in an absurd film and hams it up accordingly. He's the most entertaining thing in this picture. Lastly, the creators of this movie were so determined to make sure that the actors spoke exactly like the book's medieval characters that they never stopped to wonder whether important strands of the dialogue made any sense. As for the plot, it simply consisted of situations in the knight's life which barely relate to each other. This attempt to make another purist film about knightly chivalry during King Arthur's time may have amounted to something, if the filmmakers did not take their subject matter so seriously. As it stands now, "Sword of the Valiant" is occasionally fun and some of its convoluted dialogue (which some of the actors probably do not fully understand) is unintentionally funny -- especially after you stop worrying about the details of the plot and give up trying to make sense of what the characters are saying and doing -- but all this is not enough for me to recommend the picture. Nevertheless, if you like to watch actors recite strange medieval dialogue that they don't fully comprehend, then you may want to watch a couple of scenes from this film.

Now...can we take any movie seriously, whose awful soundtrack is a boring copy of the HE-MAN cartoons soundtrack? I feel sorry because this movie is NOT one's typical B production...they shot scenes in lavish locations in England, Wales and France, and were thus beyond typical B stuff... However, this is yet another Golan-Globus-Cannon actioner that turns out awful. Barren the barely decent Connery & Cushing, lead actors seem out of a high school rehearsal; O'Keefe stars as not-so-clever low-steroid musclehead. The storyline is interesting, but what you watch on the screen isn't after all... It's supposedly a deeply philosophical quest for the self and what you watch is a Richard Pryor thing. When the second red knight uses the sword, you clearly see it's fake and not a real sword. I won't watch it again.

Well, opinion on this movie is universally, shall we say, not very kind (to put it mildly) with numerous critics who have all hastened to point out the many flaws present within that serve to destabilise the films overall structural coherence. As for myself, whilst certainly conceding the films many shortcomings, I have a real fondness for it!Firstly the movie doesn't take itself at all seriously and is played throughout with it's tongue wedged very firmly in it's cheek. The overall look of the film is excellent with some great locations used for the shooting. In addition it boasts some real star casting including the always excellent Sean Connery and Peter Cushing. The costuming department excel here also with some really great suits of armour. OK, so there IS a problem with the way the film has been edited, thus rendering it disjointed and often bizarre, but who cares? It's never boring and is a harmless way to spend an hour and a half of pure escapism. In short, it's great fun!