Tristan + Isolde

Starring James Franco, Sophia Myles, and Rufus Sewell.


What? I can like love stories too.


Look it's not that bad. The love story is better than the one they tried to interject into King Arthur, but the action and general watch-ability aren't as good.

It's a little hard to watch the later love and romance scenes, because you know they shouldn't and you know they're going to get caught. Kind of like someone who's about to make a real fool of themselves. Plus, how do you not hear two dozen men on horseback without enough time for at least one of you to hide.

Also, wouldn't it be nice if someone killed the traitor simply for being a coward or a jerk, then you'd never have to worry about them actually betraying anyone.

Like all of these movies, I was constantly wondering what would have happened if they had just bothered to tell someone, instead of waiting to get caught.

But it's a good story. The acting is well done. The two story lines are carried and mixed well. And the action was also nice. Not really that much of it, and a little dark (apparently they're the "dark ages" because everything happened at night), but a good movie over all.

A four would be too high, and a three might be too low, but I don't want to get into halves.

So 3/5