Last year, Heath Ledger went historic in Mel Gibson''s
The Patriot, a run-of-the-mill war/action/drama film. This
year, he has set his sights even further in the past, in a not-so-ordinary medieval story called
A Knight''s Tale.
A Knight''s Tale combines the intensity of medieval jousting with modern audience fanfare, and the result is pretty typical of early summer pictures. The theme is ''watch but don''t think,'' because if you do think too hard (which is not hard at all) about the legitimacy of this film, you might find this one even worse than last week''s The Mummy Returns.
Luckily, I went into A Knight''s Tale with low expectations and was pleasantly surprised, and while it didn''t require much more brain power than that Brendan Fraser movie, it did turn out to know a lot more about action, comedy, and drama than The Mummy Returns.