Black Knight: Critic Reviews

31%

MovieWeb: 1 reviews

14%

RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Claudia Puig USA Today (Top Critic)

Tedious and predictable.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Michael O'Sullivan Washington Post (Top Critic)

30

A single fish-out-of-water joke told over and over again.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Stephen Hunter Washington Post (Top Critic)

80

Slight but highly enjoyable.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Jay Carr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

50

A time-travel comedy that doesn't go anywhere we haven't been before.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Mark Holcomb Village Voice (Top Critic)

Paint-by-numbers cliche-fest.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Mark Caro Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

25

This is paint-by-numbers filmmaking.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Joe Leydon Variety (Top Critic)

Black Knight isn't awful, strictly speaking, just tepid and predictable.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jonathan Foreman New York Post (Top Critic)

0

The filmmakers ... seem to have been inspired mainly by contempt for the audience: everything about their work feels lazy and slapdash.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Geoff Pevere Toronto Star (Top Critic)

Were it not for Lawrence's presence, you get the feeling the flimsily constructed comedy would simply collapse and blow away.
Full Review » 11 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

50

The latest in a string of mediocre-to-bad films that have latched onto Lawrence's name as their sole marketable commodity.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

Intermittently amusing though sloppy around the edges, Black Knight makes a serviceable vehicle for Martin Lawrence's clowning.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

80

A rip-roaring time-travel comedy tailored beautifully to Martin Lawrence's protean talent.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Nell Minow Common Sense Media

60

Martin Lawrence amuses in raunchy comedy.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Jeffrey Westhoff Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

50

Lawrence relies on his usual act as the hip black guy surrounded by square white men.
Full Review » 9 years ago
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews

63

The first 23 minutes of Black Knight (yes, I timed it) are easily the most effective...
Full Review » 10 years ago
Mark Palermo Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

If Army of Darkness was remade by members of the KKK, the results would likely approximate Black Knight.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Stefan Birgir Stefansson sbs.is

13

crap
Full Review » 10 years ago
Audrey Rock-Richardson Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah)

17

Lawrence chooses to rely solely on his fourth-grade instincts to get him through the film, with no sidekick to dilute his overbearingly tacky style.
Full Review » 10 years ago
John J. Puccio DVDTown.com

40

...there's not a lot in it that will offend anyone...unless you count dull, boring, and unoriginal as offensive.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Frank Ochieng Movie Eye

38

...is about as hilarious as skinny-dipping in an alligator-infested moat.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com

13

Martin Lawrence can be hysterically funny. You'd never guess that from watching the remarkably wasteful endeavor.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Eric Monder Film Journal International

More a pair of Jacks than a royal flush.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Scott Von Doviak Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Mark Twain managed to pen A Connecticut Yankee all by his lonesome, but three highly-paid Hollywood writers were needed to put together this lazy retread.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Mike McGranaghan Aisle Seat

50

This is the kind of role Lawrence can phone in, and that is exactly what he has done.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Richard Roeper Ebert & Roeper

Martin Lawrence [stars] as a theme park worker who falls into a scummy moat and surfaces in the Middle Ages -- perhaps in search of people who would find his humor fresh and original. No such luck.
Full Review » 10 years ago