Arthur the King
Arthur the King
Arthur the King: The term ‘sport’ has been under stated in a very small way. Adventure racing is by far the most extreme, the most demanding and the most endurance requiring sport in the world. Even an Iron Man, which is a combination of running, swimming and biking, becomes child’s play compared to this activity.
Adventure racing can be running, biking, climbing, kayaking and any other bizarre and difficult way of progressing through all sorts of challenging and hazardous domains. There may be events that last a number of days, and only short periods of convincing rest and time abuse due to offering help like inter-venous fluids would be allowed.
“Arthur the King” is inspired by actual events of one of these races, which the the American based team has to race in the rainforest, mountains and rivers of the Dominican Republic (the story turns out that it was about a Swedish team in Ecuador). Actor Mark Wahlberg plays the role of nautical team captain Michael light, a member of the team who adopt a dog named Arthur.
It is quite literally three films in one. They are all enjoyable to an extent, however, not all the parts integrate seamlessly together. Of the three straights, the one that is least that is easily caught is Michael’s piece. He is the type of character who fidgets with weary of lying in one place, and with a craving for excitement, adventurism. Man vs. mainly labeled “the best adventure team racer who has never won a championship” has left a lot to prove.
Playing himself off-camera in wild. Bear Grylls. Michael would go crazy for his wife & daughter but he would not go crazy working with his father who used to be in the military and is a realtor. It is also clear that he does not wish his image to be the ‘unfashionable’ viral image of his team that got stuck in the mud.
After the last failure, no one comes over to advertise him. With just half of the amount that he needs, Michael manages to put together a team: notably, Chick (Ali Suliman), the navigator who was cut from the championship team due to a bad knee, Olivia (Nathalie Emmanuel), a daughter of a former champion and an expert free climber, Leah (Simu Liu), the one who put that mud photo that went viral and a social media public who still is bitter with Michael for the poor moves they made in the last race that made them lose the prize. Michael guarantees this time Leo will have a say in the way the team is planned, and Lou tells him, ‘It has been noted why it has to be a very loud one.’
The other part the film Arthur the King deals with is the race itself, ‘5-10 days racing across some of the worst terrain known to man.’ Further cut back on the essential on-site prep time due to construing the team budget.
They step in right on time for the race to start without any time left to acclimate. “The first thing is that everything is possible. And the second and third, we will figure it out,” Michael tells the team, and the rest are also overenthusiastic and says things such as, “Whatever it takes,” “We accept it. We embrance (dot).”
First task was to cross through 24 miles of jungle. There are no rules here so one of the games is to compete in actual hard conditions and rugged and unexplored lands to look for shortcuts. This part of the movie has beautiful sceneries – even though the competitors do not often bother to see them – as well as very thrilling scenes including a real neck breaking action on a worn-out zip line.
The third one, naturally, is Arthur’s who is a beaten stray dog, and quite as incredulous as does he really incase after “not-a-dog-person” Michael gave him a meatball follows and then helps the team to run some hundred miles and at one point, saves them from leapfrogging the edges of a cliff. Arthur’s and Michael’s initial images are of two loners at the beginning of the film while by the end of the race they form a team and then a family.
The “whatever it takes” spirit remains across the whole team, but members’ appreciation of what ‘it’ or the goal that they are ready to go to the ends of the world for, will determine is where the change comes in.
Once in a while holding back his laughter while addressing Arthur the King, Yeh looked like Wahlberg was over-exaggerating at Andy Samberg doing Wahlberg and I was half expecting a scene where he told the dog — ‘say hi to your mother’.
Nevertheless even though Michael has probably mixed feelings about the climatic race in the movie especially the part where he breaks up with Arthur and how all the determination he harnessed in the race oozed out all- focuses on bringing Arthur back home – without any arguments – is breathtaking. We can’t wait to see the inevitable footage of the actual Mikael and Arthur, accompanied, hopefully, by ‘the felt’ words of Mr. Ross.
Michael’s wife does not hide the fact claiming to reach the finish line in a dream is ‘in her words’ magical, and the feeling at the end of the movie does not forgive us. In fact, the film invites the audience to look critically at the targets and objectives set such as winning or reaching the last stop to explore the outcome of doing these activities and the meaning of such winning.
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- Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Sport
- Country: United States
- Director: Simon Cellan Jones
- Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Simu Liu, Juliet Rylance
