The King

To be honest it's not an outstanding movie. But atmosphere and music was so incredible that this movie dragged me into it. And the fight scene between king and prince in the mud? Well you need to see it I didn't expect this and it was really good and maybe funny too. As I said it's not perfect but I really love it anyway.

Edit: Okay I had to rewatch this movie because I'm still listening the soundtrack and I've wanted to watch the movie again. And yeah maybe because Timothée as Henry V. was really awesome. It was really awesome even to watch the movie for second time.

Clear by the lack of media attention and accolades this film received, it passed many others like me by in 2019. In the midst of Lady Bird, Call Me By Your Name, Beautiful Boy, and Little Women, it’s an underrated and overlooked gem on Timothée Chalamet’s fast-growing list of credits. Let me also preface this by saying that war movies are not my genre at all… but boy am I glad I gave it a chance.

This is a story of men who rule led by their emotions and pride over rationality. Hal is a beautifully portrayed character who struggles with finding the balance between morality and his inexperience but eagerness to give his country what it needs, even if he isn’t sure what that is. Timothée has had a habit of getting typecast as “frail-looking boy that everyone underestimates” but he blows those roles out of the water and it’s not something that will continue much longer as he gets older, so I’m also not gonna be upset about that when he delivers speeches like that on the battlefield that almost make me cry.

The sore spot in this film is unfortunately Robert Pattinson… who I adore, don’t get me wrong, but when he first speaks in his “French accent” it does completely take you out of the film. It’s a comical sort of thing that I'm not actually sure is intentional or not. After a few minutes you get used to it and it’s alright, but when my initial reaction is “oh no, this is bad”, that’s a problem.

Lily-Rose Depp and Joel Edgerton both play vital parts to this story that were incredibly enjoyable to watch, they both had me hanging on to their every word with some of the dialogue.

I'm not into colossal nor war movie but the carisma and the true potrait of the characters really got me. Superb and honest

This is neither an action fireworks nor has it endless battle scenes. You should know that before you watch.

It is a slow build up that can be percieved as running a bit too long. But I really liked it. It's an honest movie, well produced. It looks and feels real. And so does the battle once it takes place. I so appreciate doing this not in CGI but putting the camera right in the middle of it. As for the historical accuracy or how it relates to the source material, I do not know. But it also isn't that important to me as this is a movie that, first and foremost, is there to entertain.

All actors are doing really well but Sean Harris was the one who really stood out in my opinion.

With Outlaw King and now this Netflix really knows how to film medieval battles. In both movies the battles were absolutely breathtakingly beautiful.

Plot : 8.0
Acting : 8.0
Pacing : 7.0
Cinematography : 8.0
Writing : 8.0
Ending : 9.0

Great movie. Amazing music. Can't emphasis how important the score is. Everything great and believable until Robert Pattinson showed up. Every time he is on screen it's like a really bad SNL skit. We are in 2019, couldn't they cast a real French actor or at least someone with a better accent? This is especially jarring because they did everything else so well and everything felt so real. Removing one star because of Robert Pattinson.

Great movie. The battle scene was really well done.

To be honest the first half kind of bored, so it's off to a slow start, but it pays out, because the second half has amazing tactics and at the end the plot is fast, surprising and well crafted.

Timothée Chalamet fits perfectly in this role for having the ability to be fluently bilingual.
Aside from Robert Pattinson's French accent which is out of place.
This movie is among the great ones. Nice work of art.