The Kid Who Would Be King Movie Download

4 / 10

What a pity!
I came to this off the back of ATTACK THE BLOCK, a film that many of us adore. It was smart, fresh, witty, exciting and appealing and one of the best films of 2011. Joe Cornish’s follow-up took years to come through, and I guess I was hoping for more of the same. I didn’t get it. The writer/director’s previously-displayed creativity is entirely missing, leaving this a generic ‘young adult’ fantasy preoccupied with tired tropes and generic staging. The whole thing has a bargain basement LORD OF THE RINGS rip-off feel to it, but made without any of the expected British charm. Instead they up the comedy stakes and as a result this becomes completely embarrassing at times, a made-up-as-they-go-along kind of feel to it. The acting is also routinely poor, with unrestained overacting from certain performers and a general lack of conviction from all involved; with the offspring of both Celia Imrie and Andy Serkis in the cast and neither displaying any kind of talent, this whiffs of nepotism too. Add in the usual pretty but soulless CGI action that’s blighted many a modern movie, you have a general waste of time, although it does pick up a little at the end for a lively climax.Read More