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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- There’s no reason for a film with a plot this simple to drag on to the two-hour mark. In a movie filled with public executions, that running time qualifies as truly cruel and unusual punishment.
- 40Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonLast Knights is little more than a dutifully compiled collection of genre conventions, its tale of a group of brave knights seeking vengeance for their fallen leader so undemanding that it’s almost charmingly pedestrian.
- 40VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangLast Knights is a fairly ludicrous mystery and a so-so action movie, but it’s nonetheless been constructed with an earnest attention to detail that shouldn’t be taken for granted.
- 40Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleThe medieval-tinged adventure Last Knights will test your patience for speeches about honor, grim declarations of loyalty and pre-battle glowering.
- 38USA TodayClaudia PuigUSA TodayClaudia PuigIt will be hard for audiences to remain even vaguely attentive during this slog of a feudal vengeance tale.
- 30Village VoiceAmy NicholsonVillage VoiceAmy NicholsonWhile Kiriya can shoot a sword fight, his preferred pace is glacial. He wants to make sure the audience feels every plot point.
- 25Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenAnother macho celebration of fighting for "freedom" because someone else told you to, devoid of any acknowledgement of the inherent irony of that ideology.
- 25New York PostSara StewartNew York PostSara StewartThis ponderous drama from director Kazuaki Kiriya quickly gets weighed down by its own blood-drenched armor.
- 20The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckNeither the dramatic nor action elements are remotely compelling, with the nearly two-hour running time feeling interminable.
- 20The DissolveNathan RabinThe DissolveNathan Rabinthis old-school international hodgepodge production is weighed down by a lumbering humorlessness and a glacial pace that makes it seem far longer than its 115 minutes.