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Title: All hype, no substance.
Review: Not made out as what it was expensively hyped-up to be. Special effects junkies may get something out of this film, but I found it long, very boring and totally unmoving. The charters in general were shallow and one-dimensional; none of the main characters were in the slightest bit likeable, and the film's potential was ruined by the extremely silly and totally fabricated central story of the "upstairs/downstairs" romance between Merlin and Maeve. This totally implausible bit of the plot succeeds in turning this tale of magic and chivalry into just another trite Hollywoodisation in which only beautiful people and thwarted love count for much. Such a shame - given the beautiful settings, it could have been a good film.......
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