In true Guy Ritchie fashion, we get the talking with cuts, we get very hilarious verbal sparring and quips. He also flips the journey on it's head. Montaging through the parts of the story WE ALLLLLLL know to get to the spicy bits. He grabbed from every King Arthur story at least a little. He took a very nontraditional approach to storytelling and it paid off. By corrupting the usual journey story and smashcutting his way to CGI laden megamoments, he avoided a lot of the usual King Arthur pitfalls. There's no romance, there's no Merlin (Except as a mention, unless the chick was Merlin...), and there's no time to waste. I really fucking liked it.