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Title: Way too long for its own good...
Review: This movie is just way too long. Scenes throughout drag on while failing miserably to reach clear and concise objectives. Take, for instance, when Nimue was tied up as a sacrifice to the Dragon. It ends up being slain by Merlin, but not before Nimue's face is badly burned. The only purpose of this scene: to show Merlin healing it at the end of the film. Then there's Merlin's jesting sidekick Frik. 10 minutes of perfectly good film wasted on his shapeshifting during a dance number in the castle hall. WHY?!?!? Way too long and drawn out, Merlin would've fared no worse had it been cut in half to 1 1/2 hours. Most of this could've been easily accomplished throwing out Frik's character, which does absolutely nothing for the story. It's ironic that the last line in the film was "No more magic", because that's the impression I got from beginning to end. NO MAGIC.
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