Call Accept Reject Personalise my choices. Netflix Netflix. In this big-budget adaptation, soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley and promises to return his sword to his family in Nottingham. Watch all you want. More Details. Watch offline. Available to download. Social Issue Dramas, Period Pieces. Earlier kings were addressed as "Your Grace. Quotes Robin Longstride : Rise and rise again until lambs become lions. Crazy credits The first part of the end credits are in the same style as Ridley Scott 's production company 'Scott Free Productions'.
Alternate versions On DVD and Blu-ray Disc, the minutes longer "Director's Cut" contains slightly more violence and expanded battles and additional character development. User reviews Review. Top review. A;ll the "right" elements, but the result is disappointing. I'm relieved to see that so many other reviewers felt as I did although I also feel for those who participated in this movie and gave their all.
I write movies myself, and have been on the receiving end of a lousy review, both from viewers and critics, and it "hoits. I'm an Anglophile American but majored in English lit and have avidly read British authors and legends from earliest to present day. I read a version of Robin Hood as a child, as did we all. And what I loved most about Robin and the Merry Men even then was the camaraderie, the rough humor and loyalty to larger ideals.
I loved the intimacy and "smallness" of the story in its magnificent forest. It invited the reader in to live with Robin and his band. I believe that this is what has charmed through the ages: Robin was a rebel and a leader irreverent and good-humored and fearless; quick to fight and to forgive, a foe of hypocrisy and unfairness.
A trustworthy comrade. A marksman par excellence. A risk taker for the fun and hell of it. This movie delivered none of that. It left me unengaged. And yes, sadly, Russell is far too old to be the youthful rebel that Robin was. And Cate A middle-aged woman hurling threats of emasculation, that is such a turn-off and risible as well. Oy, made me cringe and flinch and I'm female too.
Even as a prequel, I didn't buy the setting. Huge battlefields, castles, large farms Robin was a forest dweller above all he knew forests that are long since sacrificed to the hunger for wood and war. That would have been a fascinating fantasy scenario for Ridley Scott to recreate; those ancient, almost unimaginable first-growth forests I do understand but still take issue with that strategy.
The movie was structurally difficult to understand, if not downright incomprehensible. That smacks of a script that did not know where it was going and as a result got overworked. For me, creating a a script is like kneading bread dough. You have to stop at just the right moment. The idea of taking from the rich and giving to the poor was still in storyboard form.
Although various obscure bandits and ne'er-do-wells inspired ancient ballads about such a figure, our image of him is largely a fiction from the 19th century. But so what? In for a penny, in for a pound. After the death of Richard, Robin Hood raises, arms and fields an army to repel a French army as it lands on an English beach in wooden craft that look uncannily like World War II troop carriers at Normandy.
His men, wielding broadswords, backed by archers, protected from enemy arrows by their shields, engage the enemy in a last act devoted almost entirely to nonstop CGI and stunt carnage in which warriors clash in confused alarms and excursions, and Russell Crowe frequently appears in the foreground to whack somebody. Subsequently, apparently, Robin pensioned his militia and retired to Sherwood Forest to play tag with Friar Tuck.
Ah, you say, but what of Maid Marion? In this telling, Marion Cate Blanchett is not a maid but a widow, and not a merry one. At one point she threatens to unman Robin with her dagger, which is unlike the Maid Marions I've known and loved. Blanchett plays the role with great class and breeding, which is all wrong, I think. I cannot discover any sincere interest on the part of Scott, Crowe or the writer Brian Helgeland in any previous version of Robin Hood.
Their Robin is another weary retread of the muscular macho slaughterers who with interchangeable names stand at the center of one overwrought bloodbath after another. Have we grown weary of the delightful aspects of the Robin Hood legend?
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