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‘Arthur the King’ Review: Mark Wahlberg and a Very Good Dog Make For a Winning Combination in This Feelgood Drama
Mark Wahlberg discovers the power of the dog in director Simon Cellan Jones' 'Arthur the King,' a heart-swelling true story.
Director Simon Cellan Jones and screenwriter Michael Brandt, adapting Mikael Lindnord’s book “Arthur: The Dog Who Crossed the Jungle to Find a Home,” take us through the ups and downs of adventure racing. Though dramatic embellishment is certainly to be expected, shifting the film’s narrative in years (from 2014 to 2018), locations (from Ecuador to the Dominican Republic) and team countries (from Sweden to the United States) doesn’t impact the fundamentals of Michael and Arthur’s meet-cute over meatballs, or their adoptive journey together. They capture humans’ fearless persistence and nature’s dangerous beauty in equal measure, whether the competitors are dangling from a zip-line (Gary Roach’s editing makes this visceral sequence’s stress level on par with the opening of “Cliffhanger”), scaling great heights or hiking rain-drenched jungles.
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