awful and awful and awful from screenplay to cast to effect . should one be surprise consider the director announce in the past that he think the book do not give good movie material and that he dislike fantasy or child movie to begin with . do he pick them up in the end after all to ride the harry potter wave . announce at the same time that he change the script from young british boy to older american boy to avoid have yet another harry . well and susan cooper book series the rising of the dark sequence be write long before harry potter and it have all the material for a good movie . if you like britain . it landscape and people . and history and a the background of the book be the king arthur legend . unfortunately and the original book have be butcher to the point that the story be unrecognizable . that do not necessarily make a movie bad and just different . however and in this case and a a result of the butchering and the story do not make sense and lack any depth and and be a disappointment from a to z which the director try to hide by use cheap effect and repetitive and lame shooting angle . save yourself the theater ticket fee and buy those wonderful book from susan cooper instead .