Movie Summary — The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of Merlin The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of Merlin* plays less like a traditional fantasy origin story and more like a restrained, mythic meditation on faith, power, and moral inheritance—closer in spirit to Kingdom of Heaven than Harry Potter. Set in a fractured, post-Roman Britain drowning in tribal warfare and spiritual confusion, the film follows Merlin not as a flamboyant wizard, but as a burdened servant—an unwilling prophet shaped by loss, discipline,