Crappy film

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

This is a bad bad bad movie. The script really sux. The acting is sub par even from Harvey Keitel.The movie tries to be funny with this green knight who is a blatant rip-off of the knight guarding the bridge in the Holy Grail. I kept expecting him to get all his limbs cut off, but all he does is go take a pee.The story could have made for a fair movie, but the acting stunk so bad you wouldn't be able to hold your breath long enough. Especially bad acting from the princess. Peeu Another running gag in the movie is that every time the princess is kidnapped or disappears the king tells the whole village to dye their cloths black, but when she's found they are all ordered to dye their cloths bright colours. This happens two or three times and I guess the producers thought it was funny, but it was so poorly executed that I didn't even smile at it.This is definitely a good movie to skip if you see it. Run the opposite direction as fast as you can.

I read the IMDb comments before watching this movie, and most said "bad bad bad". So I was skeptical when I turned on the DVD player, and soon very positively surprised.Mixing the themes of medieval knights and alien visitors, it took some cues from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but it's very different. Badness may be in the eye of the beholder. For myself, I can only say: It made me laugh and it made me cry (witness dried tear stains on my glasses), and offered memorable sights. And that's what I demand from a good movie.Like a play, it has a short list of personae: the old count, Klever (Harvey Keitel), Boetius the scientist (Kinski), the bishop, Alba, IX the extraterrestrian. Their wheelings and dealings made at least some sense to me. Alba (Maria Lamor) had some witty lines, especially when telepathing with IX. The main conflict was clearly brought out: IX must die when he sheds his space suit, but only then can he make love to Alba. The tournament between Klever and IX was gripping - especially the end when IX is naked and presumedly dead. Liquid gold to the rescue :^)All in all, for me this was not a bad movie at all. Old, yes; unrealistic, of course - this is sheer fantasy. If you want an escape from this present world, you might as well watch Caballero del dragòn. (IX is Roman for 9.. maybe unintentional allusion to Plan 9?)Oh, and if God had wanted us nude, we'd be born that way...

I was really looking forward to seeing Klaus Kinski and Harvey Keitel in this medieval tale of sci-fi and fantasy. But boy, was this movie bad! Kinski's voice was dubbed and he smiles all the time, looking way to happy for his role as the medieval scientist. And poor Harvey Keitel... At the time of shooting this movie, he must have still been recovering from all the LSD he dropped during the 70's or something, because you can see he has absolutely no idea what he was doing on the set. His character is named Klever, a not too intelligent knight who is in love with princess Alba. It's often Klever who provides the totally misplaced and stupid comedy elements of this movie. But I did find it funny to see Keitel speak Shakespearian dialogues with his Brooklyn accent. Pretty ridiculous. You should see him thanking God when he finds out how the space-armour works. And see him fall asleep while standing guard. Priceless! Other attempts at comedy were provided by the Green Knight Who Guards The Bridge And Spits When He Talks (actually, that spitting-part was unintentional and you only see him do it near the end of the movie, but it WAS funny). That Green Knight character, by the way, was directly lifted from MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975).But STAR KNIGHT isn't really a comedy (although it's so bad, you WILL laugh). It's a medieval sci-fi-tale. There's a spaceship flying around a small village. The inhabitants mistakingly see it as a flying dragon. That's plausible. The alien in it, is a human (from another planet? From the future? Who knows?). Klever, who's not so clever, thinks the astronaut's space-suit is his armour. Plausible too. But the rest of the movie isn't. The alien visitor, named IX, is there to study earth, but falls in love with Alba. He communicates through telepathy (which seems to make a stupid, high-pitched noise), but only Alba can hear him (that, or he only speaks to her). Since IX and Klever are both in love with Alba, they have to do battle with each other. When Klever stands outside the spaceship screaming he demands a duel, Alba is inside the ship telling IX things like "If you really love me, you will fight for me...", knowing that it might get him killed. That b!tch! Anyway, the duel is over before it really starts. So this movie is just stupid and pointless. The conclusion is just plain idiotic.But you will laugh with it and fans of Harvey Keitel and Klaus Kinski should see this (and then wonder what the hell they were doing in this picture). The special effects of the space-ship aren't too bad, but there's so much light coming out of the thing that you can't tell what shape it is. The movie-makers clearly had no idea what kind of movie they were making, nor were it all was going to lead to. So it results in ridiculous nonsense. Amusing, but stupid and bad.

I was reading what the guy above said about it and no i have no clue how Harvey got suckered into doing this film. it is raw comedy for him. Typical princess meets the man of her dreams and can't have him film with Harvey as the knight who loves her and her money and is gonna kill the one she loves to impress the dad and princess, marry her, and thus be rich. Only problem is, he can't...and the idiocy of his fighting with a man who cannot be beaten...he is in an IRON suit which a bunch of swords cannot penetrate, is a riot! This must have been done during the BAD years when he had to buy baby formula and stuff. But see it just for the HUMOR and likeness to those crazy 60's sci-fi flicks like "It Came From Outer Space".