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| Description Loosely inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales' and set in the 14th Century this is the story of William Thatcher, a peasant squire, who has a real talent for jousting. During this time only Knights of noble birth are eligible to joust and so William enlists the help of his three friends Wat, Roland and Geoffrey to adopt a false identity and compete in high level competitions.
Editorial Reviews Rolling Stone - p.92 - Peter Travers Box Office - p.55 - Shlomo Schwartzberg USA Today - p.9E - Susan Wloszczyna Sight and Sound - p.48-9 - Kim Newman Total Film - p.92 - Cam Winstanley New York Times - Elvis Mitchell (05/11/2001) New York Times - p.E16 | |||||
Reviews  Remembering a great actor,watch the film after creditsReview created: 03/10/08 by:  Remembering a great actor. This film is excellent, its fun from start to finish, even the film after the credits will have you in stitches. Review ID: 10000000008895337 Was this review helpful? Report this review  Good film starring Heath LedgerReview created: 08/09/08 by: This is the story of William, a young squire with a gift for jousting. After his master dies suddenly, the squire hits the road with his cohorts Roland and Wat. On the journey, they stumble across an unknown writer, Chaucer. William, lacking a proper pedigree, convinces Chaucer to forge genealogy documents that will pass him off as a knight. With his newly-minted history in hand, the young man sets out to prove himself a worthy knight at the country's jousting competition, and finds romance along the way. Review ID: 10000000008631540 Was this review helpful? Report this review Modern slant on mediaval historyReview created: 07/09/08 by: Luight hearted bantor good cast and i wanted to replace my video with the dvd as i enjoyed it so much, especially the late Heath Ledger Review ID: 10000000008614371 Was this review helpful? Report this review Jousting to Rock MusicReview created: 03/06/08 by: It's the story of a low born servant of a noble who poses as a Knight to compete in jousting touraments. Lots of action and, of course, a romantic interest. Basically, it's jousting to a rock music sound track. Review ID: 10000000007383692 Was this review helpful? Report this review  A KNIGHT'S TALEI watched this as I wanted to get more of a handle on the tragically truncated career of Heath Ledger. Sadly is shed no light at all. I was also tempted by it being one of Chaucer's tales. - Yes a tale, a vignette not a padded out film of two hours long. Stylistically it is also challenging as it suddenly overlays a medieval courante with contemporary rock music from the lies of Queen & Robbie Williams. And quite frankly seeing big ensemble numbers supposedly at the court of Edward the Black Prince jigging like stoned tarts at Glastonbury just doesn't inspire or elevate the mind and stretches the realms of plausibility! And it is clearly set in its contemporary medieval setting (difficult to stick a film about jousting somewhere else), it's not like it's a modern interpolation. The female lead and object of Mr Ledger's passion is dressed like a Beaton model at Ascot, except far more and far too tarty. And that's basic all the film is a dreary boring long-winded heterosexual romp. Ugh! Tedious! I think I'll try and sell my copy on e.bay I.M I.M Review ID: 10000000006679188 Was this review helpful? Report this review |
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