Being the highest-budgeted 2-episode miniseries ever produced by NBC, I was shocked at how bad this movie really was. The historiclly inaccurate events were told out of sequence, and the all-star cast gave a horrendous performance. The special effects were poorly photographed; notice how the stones from Vortigern's castle just seem to "disappear" upon collapsing, instead of tumbling downhill. Compare this to the SFX in older movies, such as "Dragonslayer", which were done without computers and look much more realistic.