Arthur The King is a feel-good sports drama about adventure racer Michael Light(Mark Wahlberg) who befriends a stray dog during an adventure race in the Dominican Republic.
Wahlberg gives the same performance that he has given over the past five years- blandly serviceable and indistinct. For this kind of flick that's mostly fine. There are some decent talents in the supporting cast but the script is so poor, the pacing so jagged, and the characters so thin it doesn't really matter who they are or what they're doing. The dog is very sweet.
Shoot on location as well as utilizing a fair amount of green screen the overall look is cheap and uneven. The sound track is generic inspirational and generally so are all the production elements. The reason to see this is for the dog but the problem is the dog doesn't really show up until over half way through the runtime. Its not even really about the dog, its about Wahlberg's Light who on paper isn't interesting and isn't made so by Wahlberg's performance. Much of the script and plot beats are baffling creating a vagueness, unreality, and general inability to engage.
There is a certain pleasure in saccharine feel-good dog movies like A Dog's Purpose, this ain't it.
Currently in theaters, coming soon to VOD.
Don't See It.
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