2001 · comedy · fantasy · adventure
Black Knight
Directed by Gil Junger1h 35m2001
Martin Lawrence plays Jamal, an employee in Medieval World amusement park. After nearly drowning in the moat, he awakens to find himself in 14th century England.
Our read: Black Knight (2001) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · fantasy · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / fantasy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- epic-stakes
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