The King's Daughter

1/21/20221h 34m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ What on Earth can hold more power than a king? ~

Overview:

King Louis XIV's quest for immortality leads him to capture and steal a mermaid's life force, a move that is further complicated by his illegitimate daughter's discovery of the creature.

Director:

Sean McNamara

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$40,500,000.00

Revenue:

$2,200,000.00

Key words:

based on novel or book
immortality
mermaid
period drama
illegitimate child
quest
17th century

Cast

Pierce Brosnan

~ as ~

King Louis XIV

Kaya Scodelario

~ as ~

Marie-Josephe D'Alember

Benjamin Walker

~ as ~

Yves De La Croix

William Hurt

~ as ~

Pere La Chaise

Julie Andrews

~ as ~

Narrator

Fan Bingbing

~ as ~

Mermaid

Pablo Schreiber

~ as ~

Dr. Labarthe

Ben Lloyd-Hughes

~ as ~

Jean-Michel Lintillac

Rachel Griffiths

~ as ~

Abbess

Paul Ireland

~ as ~

Benoit

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Reviews (3)

MS
Manuel São Bento
Written 3 year(s) ago
2
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"The King's Daughter is everything viewers expected: a formulaic, uninteresting story filled with old-fashioned cliches and spine-chilling visual effects - not in a good way.

Not a single filmmaker and respective creative team deserve to have their work stuck in a seven-year limbo until it's released, let alone due to scheduling and budget issues. However, while the horrible VFX can be forgiven, the disappointing narrative can't be saved, not even by the also underwhelming performances.

Pierce Brosnan (False Positive) seems to represent a caricature, while Kaya Scodelario (Crawl) benefits from the release delay, which fortunately didn't negatively impact her early career. The only positive point is that, in fact, it reached the big screen.

Too bad it's not worth it."

Rating: D-
MS
Manuel São Bento
Written 3 year(s) ago
2
MORE REVIEWS @ https://www.msbreviews.com/

"The King's Daughter is everything viewers expected: a formulaic, uninteresting story filled with old-fashioned cliches and spine-chilling visual effects - not in a good way.

Not a single filmmaker and respective creative team deserve to have their work stuck in a seven-year limbo until it's released, let alone due to scheduling and budget issues. However, while the horrible VFX can be forgiven, the disappointing narrative can't be saved, not even by the also underwhelming performances.

Pierce Brosnan (False Positive) seems to represent a caricature, while Kaya Scodelario (Crawl) benefits from the release delay, which fortunately didn't negatively impact her early career. The only positive point is that, in fact, it reached the big screen.

Too bad it's not worth it."

Rating: D-
CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
4
Must have been tax return time for Pierce Brosnan as he "stars" in this daft historical fantasy about Louis XIV of France and his aspirations for immortality. Egged on by the ambitious "Labarthe" (Pablo Schreiber) he believes that he can live forever if her manages to get hold of a mermaid and - well, he pinches her life force. Snag is, though, his own daughter "Mary-Josephe" (Kaya Scodelerio) is not so supportive of this scheme when she discovers this distressed sea creature and so, of course, off we head into the turbulent waters of familial discord before a whopping great power ballad at the end. William Hurt crops up here, too, and Benjamin Walker provides some eye candy - but the story is Disney-lite, there is way too much verbiage and although Brosnan tries to ham it all up, he just looks like he couldn't care less about any of it - a feeling with which I could pretty readily associate. It does look good, the costumes and Versailles look lovely but the rest of it is straight to video.