I wasn't going to write a review of this movie until I read some of the others and became incensed (for their benefit, that's a fancy word for very annoyed, by the way). You know, there are some very negative people out there who seem to expect a Steven Spielberg or Ang Lee masterpiece every time they insert a DVD (probably downloaded and burned for free in the first place) into their player. I would love to know what those people have hanging on their living room walls posing as "art"! I'll bet they don't have original Renoirs or Rembrandts or even Miro or Chagalls or, for that matter, original anythings! (in fact, I'll bet they probably wouldn't know any of those if they saw them!) As it is, they probably have a portrait of a green-faced oriental girl or a print of Constable's "Hay Wain" without knowing who painted the original!
OK, this is not an A-grade or even a B-grade movie if you are judging by Hollywood or Ealing standards. But let me ask you negative people, if you had a son or daughter studying screen production at university and this was their class's product for their final assignment being shown at the campus cinema, along with all the other assignments, wouldn't you be there crowing about how your kid had been part of it? And, if you do have a kid at uni, don't say you wouldn't because I can tell you, you're lying!
If you took the trouble to read the end credits, you would have noticed that several jobs were done by the same people which immediately tells us that this was (if NOT a uni assignment) someone's "have-a-go" effort at making a movie - which, I suspect, is something those negative critics wouldn't have the get-up-and-go to get off their recliners in front of their TVs and do!
As a university screen-production graduate myself, I can tell everyone who has anything negative to say about this movie that, if my class had produced this, we would have been quite happy to present it to our faculty for assessment. Yes, if I had been the director, I might have done some things a bit differently (although I can't readily give any examples). To be honest, I would love to know the story behind the making of "The Black Knight - Returns" because that would definitely colour my opinion of it.
Some have been just as critical of the cast but, again, I wouldn't mind betting that none of them got paid but did it just for the fun of it. Cheryl Texiera should seriously seek a career in acting as, in my opinion, with some professional tuition, she could become a star.
So, no, I cannot give this movie more than a score of 5 but that I WILL give it, because it is patently obvious that it was never made to be a blockbuster and the people who did make deserve some encouragement and credit!
