Prior to Game of Thrones, medieval action-adventure movies didn't get much play on the big screen, but lately it seems like every studio wants a piece of the dark fantasy pie. And while director Kazuaki Kiriya's Last Knights isn't exactly fantasy, it's packed with all the typical genre conventions: knights, kings, castles, betrayal and bloodshed. However, those things don't necessarily make a good movie, as we've seen from other fantasy pics like Seventh Son and 47 Ronin. Unfortunately, Last Knights doesn't quite rise to the challenge, despite good leads in Clive Owen and Morgan Freeman.
The story follows Raiden (Owen), a warrior "of peasant stock" and loyal servant to his master, Bartok (Freeman). But when Bartok refuses to kowtow to a neighboring realm, the realm's tyrannical authority figure, Gezza Mott (Aksel Hennie), convinces the unnamed country's emperor (Payman Maadi) to sentence Bartok to death. As a result, Bartok's realm is quickly disbanded, leaving his people homeless and without purpose. In retaliation, Raiden and his fellow knights band together one last time to seek revenge against Mott and his army, in hopes that it might sway the emperor.
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