The Letter for the King

The Letter for the King | Official Trailer | Netflix
Entertaining little sword & sorcery adventure about a group of teenagers on their way to becoming knights and the misadventures that befall them. One of the group is a girl because this is the 21st Century and we can't have the guys going off on an adventure all by their lonesome. In my neanderthalish mind I seriously doubt any girl ever took take up arms. But the world is full of strange and wondrous things, so I suppose it's possible that it did happen on occasion.

Then again, police dramas on TV inevitably include a high speed car chase. I thought the TV people probably heard about one such incident and based all their car chase scenes on that one incident. Then I moved to Phoenix and I discovered that there was one every day.

So I suppose it's possible that tough girls went to war more often than you or I might suppose. Because between the skimpy records from dark ages and our cosmic insight, supposition is all we've got.

There's a scene of a horse and rider jumping off of a cliff and another of the same horse and a different rider jumping off of a sailing ship. That was pretty cool. All land in the water.

There are a few fight scenes, lots of scenes of people galloping their horses across the landscape, and lots of wisecracks from our wanna be knights.