Royal Flash is a fine old-school adventure movie with some swashbuckling action and a couple of really fun, grotesque, and absurd moments that tell a conspiracy story (our hero shall impersonate a Prince for certain political reasons). While entertaining, in my humble opinion, Royal Flash lacks sometimes a little momentum and has some lengthy parts, so it does not reach the same level - and tempo - as the three Musketeer movies also directed by Richard Lester (starring Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Michael York, and Raquel Welch, among others). Notably, Royal Flash got a really fine production and the cast (including Malcolm McDowell, Oliver Reed, and Britt Ekland) is a real fun to watch, the real stars of the movie. One last note: as I am unfamiliar with the source, the novel Royal Flash written by George MacDonald Fraser (the second novel of a series of novels and short stories about the adventures of hero/anti-hero Sir Harry Paget Flashman), I cannot say if a reader will be satisfied by the movie adaptation. Anyway, my exact rate: 6 + 1 extra for Malcolm McDowell only (unforgettable: Alex, A Clockwork Orange).
Review of Royal Flash
