It’s not just Hollywood that makes comic book movies. Yes, everyone has heard the adaptation of Marvel’s creations, and Americans will always have more money, so you can regularly please the audience with another epic about superheroes who are engaged in wearing funny costumes and saving everything from kittens in trees to the whole planet. True, forgetting to ask the planet – and whether it is necessary to save it, it seems, and without them in films of other genres perfectly do, and then, you see, another subject arrives, interferes with those who are supposed to state, collects all the cream and flies away, not realizing that in a bright suit he is so perfectly visible against the sky... So, something got me a little wrong, because we are not talking about Hollywood, so we will return to our pharaohs, that is, to Europe, and specifically to Spain.
Someone may think that the laurels of overseas colleagues did not give rest to the inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula or they wanted to promote the national cinema trend today. He'll be wrong. In fact, the film adaptation of the comic book popular in Spain went to its viewer for more than a dozen years - yes, exactly so. At the end of the twentieth century, an attempt was made to transfer it to the screen, Michael Pare was even attributed to the project, but something did not work out there. Then the question of filming was repeatedly raised, but every time something interfered, until in 2010 everything was finally decided. Well, how to say definitively - the script was, the money was allocated, but the actors did not get along a bit. At first, some were invited, but in the end they had to apply Plan B and conduct a new casting. Lucky? Hell, yes Sergio Peris-Mencheta is still handsome, unlike the initially considered too sweet Gonzalez - the crusader captain turned out just fine, you can immediately see - a real man. Here with the girl, of course, the span is still the same, but the film is not called - "Captain Thunder and the militant blonde", so we will limit ourselves to the fact that she at least knows which side to take up the sword.
And here the Holy Grail — ask the viewer, accustomed to the fact that comics about modernity in the first place are composed. Have you ever been wrong, my dear readers? In the yard as early as 1191, the era of the Crusades, the Grail seekers, however, is no longer left, everyone has risen, preferring now to wander around the Middle East, fighting with varying success with the Saracens, but the famous cup itself has not gone anywhere, moreover - it lay quietly in the cache and did not suspect that very soon it will play an important role in - yes, let it sound banal, but in the next salvation of the world, the truth will not be saved by those who are said in the first paragraph of the text of your submisssive author, and are not at all ready to be betrayed by the last moment, and they are not known. And that the world has to be saved, so there is no one else.
What will be saved - the law of the genre does not provide otherwise. Really, the other question is how? How long will it take to survive a decisive battle when your opponents become invulnerable through evil magic? I repeat, they are people, not superheroes, shaking off their enemies like specks of dust. And even if the script is too much to bother and critics it was torn apart, comparing the domestic product with the overseas not in favor of his - a familiar picture, isn't it? - and not the most spectacular special effects they did not please - than to criticize, it would be better to skip the budget. Let the film end with the words - Continuation should be - it most likely will not be, and if something else is shot on this comic, it is clearly not soon and it will rather resemble an independent film adaptation than part of the franchise.
So we send critics in the forest, we send everyone who expected too much from a film for teenagers or is dissatisfied with the most spectacular special effects – they were shot in real nature, not on a green screen. We evaluate, leave the film in the collection and rejoice that in the well-known your dutiful author of the filmography of Paris-Mencheta there is still a film where he remains alive.
8 out of 10