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starring Sean Connery, Julia Ormond and Richard Gere...
...King Arthur was made for Sean Connery, even if he is Scottish and has never quite lost his burr. Britain's Julia Ormond puts a new twist on the familiar Lady Guinevere, giving her a '90s strength to match her fabled beauty. And while Lancelot, played by Richard Gere, is the least inspiring of the three, he still manages to make believable his part in the peculiar love triangle...
...Gere's performance is nowhere near as solid as Connery's. Gere's stout American accent is slightly incongruous with the stately English court atmosphere and his screen presence is often dwarfed by Connery...
...Richard Gere's Lancelot is a cheeky existentialist, Sean Connery's King Arthur is a temporizing leader for the Clinton era, and Julia Ormond's Guinevere is all up-to-date feminist spunk. The Camelot of Jerry Zucker's "First Knight," says TIME's Richard Schickel, is more a modern gated community than a myth-enshrouded, 6th century realm. And the great romance that was played out there -- legend's ur-Triangle -- comes across as not much more consequential than suburban adultery: "One can easily imagine Guinevere and Lancelot as Gwen and Lance, furtively smooching on the 18th tee during...
Least Attractively Photographed Beautiful People: Richard Gere and Julia Ormond in First Knight. As Lancelot and Guinevere, these two dishy stars look oddly washed out. Quick! Makeup...