I’m not going to spend time wasting my life away telling you how bad Black Knight is.
Jamal Walker (Martin Lawrence) works at a decrepit California theme park in danger of being put out of business by a rival theme park. Cleaning Medieval World’s moat, he falls into the water, only to recover in Fourteenth Century England. There, Jamal meets Sir Knolte (Tom Wilkinson), a dissolute knight, before he stumbles into the court of the usurper King Leo (Kevin Conway). Jamal is impressed at what he thinks is the realism of the rival theme park; only after witnessing a gory beheading does he realize, with horror, where he really is. Jamal encounters the beautiful Victoria (Marsha Thomason) who is scheming to return the Queen (Helen Carey) to the throne, and falls fowl of the evil Sir Percival (Vincent Regan). Joining forces with Sir Knolte and Victoria, Jamal teaches the rebels some helpful football, golfing, and boxing moves, before he dons the armor of the awesome Black Knight.
That description is more fun than this movie. This is a bad film. Lawrence is so obnoxious that you cannot get past it. The idea may have worked with someone else in the position of Jamal. Lawrence either knows the script is bad and wants to compensate or he is just that bad of an actor. We may never know. But I can tell you that watching him make an ass out of himself should have been fun. It wasn’t.
DVD: Why buy it? Nothing to see here. The movie sucks, and the DVD is just the same garbage.
+ charlie craine
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