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Title: not worth the price of a rental
Review: I rented the DVD with a girlfriend last week and boy was I sorry, as nothing happens and it goes on forever. Almost everyone looks at least 15 years too old for their characters and Sam Neill (usually respectable) sleepwalks thru his part along with everyone else.I'm a Christian myself, but the story's "Hallmark Channel Christian conversion agenda" was unnecessary and very transparent. There are also a few racial stereotype jokes in bad taste, the special FX are below average, and the sets look like all the other "magical miniseries" sets. Weirdest of all was the way they chose to present Merlin as a weak uninteresting man who can't do much but evidently has great PR. Even King Arthur was a whiny weak drip.The one plus is that the music score is surprisingly nice on the ears, but that still doesn't make Merlin worth a rental.
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