questionable · Unknown

Black Knight

Gil Junger · 95 minutes

Martin Lawrence plays Jamal, an employee in Medieval World amusement park. After nearly drowning in the moat, he awakens to find himself in 14th century England.

Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy

Before you choose

What kind of time-travel story is this?

Time travel drives much of the story.

A borderline case: the temporal interpretation remains disputed. The mechanism is classified as Unknown.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

Reaching into the moat at the Medieval World theme park for a gold medallion, Jamal is pulled under and emerges in England in 1328. Almost the whole film is his stay there: he is mistaken for a messenger from Normandy, falls for the servant Victoria and is drawn into the rebellion to restore the rightful queen, with the comedy built on his modern know-how in a medieval court. The displacement drives the story, like The Visitors or Kate & Leopold. It stays at 7 because it is a single fish-out-of-water trip with no temporal mechanics, paradoxes or consequences, and his rescue awakening in the park suggests a dream before a final gag sends him to ancient Rome.

The medieval adventure ends with awakening after the near-drowning; a dream reading conflicts with the film’s time-travel framing.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan44.8

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance7/10

high confidence

Quality consensus5.0/10

Aggregate source ratings

How Titan works

Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.

Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]

This film: 75.65 base × 59.2% weighting.

Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.

The evidence

Research & sources

Research notes may reveal plot details.

These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.

Cast: Martin Lawrence, Marsha Thomason, Tom Wilkinson, Jeannette Weegar, Vincent Regan

Edition by edition

Releases & formats

8 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

These listings do not establish a best edition. Use the specifications to shortlist compatible releases, then follow the source to verify details and availability.

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