Dev Patel stars in an adaptation of the 14th-dentury poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Gawain setting out on a quest to gain honour and knighthood by facing the supernatural being of the title and his own reciprocal decapitation. He is beset by numerous challenges on his journey, from thieves to a saint, a talking fox and lecherous nobles.
As it is based on a poem, the plot scarcely fills the back of a napkin, and so it's padded out to over two hours by moving at a glacial pace with a sparsity of dialogue and sumptuous images. It does try to say something about the vain futility of striving for heroism, but takes its sweet time to do so. Unconventional, but certainly not unmissable.
5/10
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