Title: disappointing
Product review: I had high hopes that this version would be true to the book, but I guess that is too much to ask in a movie. I have read and reread the novel, and this version strays in certain aspects. I was glad they included Gurth and Athelstane, but I did not appreciate their subplot of Ivanhoe trying to clear his name of treason, which is completely invention. The word that comes to mind for this version is "crude." I know that medieval life was probably very crude, but I do not appreciate seeing it on screen. Give me the idealized MGM version any day.
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