Saffia King

How to take a good story and absolutely ruin it. The makers of this film almost followed the plot, but not enough that the story made any sense. Gawain (not a knight here) was absolutely useless, he did nothing brave, valiant or noble and even struggled somehow to light a fire. His 'test' in the house of the lord and lady ended up being a fight to get away from a weird kinky couple after the wife practically tried to rape him. His mother's role in the whole story had absolutely no purpose or conclusion. The whole film was boring (no I'm not a marvel loving person missing huge explosions) it was genuinely dull. In fairness the acting and filming were good (though many scenes dragged on way too long) but the changes made to the original poem were both pointless and nullified the simple but affect message of redemption through goodness. All you were left with was a fairly useless man having a bit of an odd year for no obvious reason and maybe having his head cut off or not. P.s, would recommend reading/listening to the translated poem so this story isn't ruined for anyone that watched this awful film

I didn't hate it but it was just a bit too forced. The costumes were great, all the actors did a good enough job, pretty funny in places, and the fabulous godmother had impressive skill walking in those heels on gravel! But the agenda (and the vocals) just seemed a bit too in your face for me personally, though I guess I appreciate the sentiment, still made it much less enjoyable which it couldn't really afford considering it seemed to be aiming to be a cheesy good-bad film to begin with. Wouldn't necessarily recommend but still fairly enjoyable for a Friday night.