The worst Daniel Craig movie on Rotten Tomatoes is an Arthurian legend with a twist

When you’re trying to make your name in Hollywood, everyone has to start somewhere. It’s a fact of life for almost every major actor or actress: You start out with small roles, like Amy Adams’ appearance in the beauty queen spoof “Drop Dead Gorgeous” or Steven Spielberg’s “Catch Me If You Can” years ago. You have become first class. Perhaps one of the most famous examples that people like to try is Michael Shannon playing a young wrestling-loving guy very briefly near the end of the classic 1993 comedy “Groundhog Day,” 15 years before his Oscar-nominated role in Sam Mendes’ film. The film “Revolutionary Road”. But not every actor’s humble beginning is something he would want to brag about.

Consider the latest man to star as 007, Daniel Craig. Craig was a famous British actor before he was called upon to play James Bond, but most people in the United States thought they first caught a glimpse of Craig and his weathered face in another Mendes film, 2002 mob film “Road to Perdition”. These people have probably forgotten (and Craig likely wants to forget) his first foray into American cinema, considering it’s his lowest-rated film on Rotten Tomatoes. That ignominious honor goes to none other than the 1995 Disney film A Child in King Arthur’s Court.

As the title suggests, “A Kid in King Arthur’s Court” is based on Mark Twain’s classic novel “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” with the same basic premise: What if a modern-day person could somehow travel? Are we going back in time to the time when the legendary Arthur ruled England? It’s an easy fish-out-of-water introduction with a fun twist on classic Arthurian legend stories, and the mid-90s were a good time for low-budget live-action Disney shows with an easy hook and at least one familiar face. In the summer of 1995, when the film was released, this face did not belong to Craig, but to Thomas Ian Nicholas. Nicholas was (at the time) known as the lead of the charming baseball comedy “Rookie of the Year,” and a few years later, he was part of the hugely successful “American Pie” ensemble. Nicholas ends up looking as lost as Calvin, the eponymous child, as the character himself feels in medieval England, but that’s nothing compared to two From his fellow stars. Look, this wasn’t just one of Daniel Craig’s first roles; As the photo above shows, his co-star was future Academy Award winner Kate Winslet.

Craig was still a few years away from becoming a somewhat famous actor, let alone a global phenomenon in one of the longest-running action franchises of all time. On the other hand, the previous year Winslet co-starred in Peter Jackson’s thriller “Heavenly Creatures,” and just two months after that film’s release, she co-starred with Emma Thompson in the beloved adaptation of “Sense and Sensitivity.” But between them, Winslet worked alongside Craig, with the two serving as love interests in a subplot along with Calvin trying to return to the correct time period. When you think about how great it is to see two major British film stars so early in their careers, you might wonder why this film hasn’t been shown more often. Well, it helps that the film has a whopping 5% (yes, five percent) on Rotten Tomatoes. Even when you take into account the fact that a movie’s rating on this aggregator site doesn’t automatically mean that’s how many critics would like the movie, per se… well, five percent is still staggeringly low.

Just about the only nice thing you can really say about Reviews For “A Child in King Arthur’s Court” is that there aren’t many of them. Even movies dating back nearly 30 years only get so many reviews, 5% out of 22 reviews. If you can do elementary arithmetic, you know that this means there is only one, count them, one A positive review of the film from Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times. And although he gave it a 3 out of 5, it’s not just rave. “This lively time-travel fantasy is the obvious result of imagination and contemplation,” notes Thomas, which… well, that’s certainly true, but hopefully that’s true of most good films. Other reviews are pretty harsh stuff, with one writer comparing it to “an hour-and-a-half aquarium video for kids”, and another saying it’s “numbingly bland, homogeneous and hollowed out by a complete lack of wit or original charm.”

“A Kid in King Arthur’s Court” was also not a huge success at the box office; Even with a budget of $15 million, the film was unable to achieve that much success in the United States when it was released in August of 1995. For Winslet, the upturn in her career would come very quickly, with all of the aforementioned “sense and emotion” . “dominated part of the awards discussion that winter and ‘Titanic’ just two years later. For Craig, things took a little longer for him on the silver screen. It was his star turn in the British crime thriller “Layer Cake” that demonstrated his ability to be as smooth, suave and suave as the role of James Bond requires.. these days, With his version of Bond finally undergroundCraig has pushed himself into different franchises like the Benoit Blanc films as well as more modern indie films like “Queer” this winter. But even as he reaches new heights in these iconic roles, in addition to his work on stage, we must never forget (though he may want to) that Daniel Craig’s career started out on a fairly low note. The good news was that he had nowhere to go but up.