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Do enlighten me.

Basically, if you're the type that expects someone's work to be a derivative copy of an older piece you happened to like better, defends the purity of centuries-old literature, or let your opinions be "supported" by people who got to see a movie for free and call that objectivity, then it isn't for you.

Criticism on the grounds of faithfulness is as useful as complaints about the historical/biblical accuracy of Darren Aronofsky's 'Noah' compared to the actual Bible tale, by which I mean it really has no place.

The Legend of the Sword is a Guy Ritchie film first and foremost. If you know that going in, you know what to expect. Pros: there were few "exposition-only" sequences-- some of it was done in a quick-cut style to the action as it happened, avoiding the waste of repeating the same thing twice in different ways or the "boring part" of making the characters mere mouthpieces for information.

I'd describe the action sequences as "made by Ritchie snorting Snyder's brand of crack", and not as an insult. The soundtrack was almost its own character and gave me a bit of Mad Max: Fury Road vibes. The humor was on point, the action was fun, the rules of magic were shown and not told (mostly), I already liked the actors going in, and they all seemed like they were having a good time too, which helps.

Really, the movie was a mix of things I'd admittedly already seen before but not in 'that specific way'. A mix of 300, LOTR, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., the Witcher series, and a bit of Marvel movies but maybe specifically Thor. Come to think of it, I'm getting flashbacks to that one Robin Hood movie with Russell Crowe in it, and if Ritchie directed something like that, I'd probably go see it too.

The side-character development was a bit lacking, but the movie was already two hours long, so if there's a director's cut coming, I'd sit through that just to see what I missed. Specifically, I wanna know WTF happened to Rubio.

TLDR; I liked it.