Reviews

I chose this and the 1922 film to do first for Robin Hood Week because I wanted to start out with an example of a great Robin Hood film and an example of a bad or meh Robin Hood film; then I can compare other movies to these two examples if I have to.

Robin Hood is hardly the worst film Scott's ever done, but there's very little here that indicates how this protracted origin story starring a middle-aged Russell Crowe was a better idea than actually going through with the proposed Sheriff of Nottingham film.

As far as the story goes, sadly, what Ridley Scott and his team of writers decided to do, is steal all of the most inaccurate ideas from all of the other Robin Hood films of the past 100 years.

As far as the story goes, sadly, what Ridley Scott and his team of writers decided to do, is steal all of the most inaccurate ideas from all of the other Robin Hood films of the past 100 years.

I thought "Robin Hood" would be a complete bore, but it definitely wasn't. I don't necessarily have to see this again, however it was a solid movie.

The film is more of a poorly guided history lesson than the justice-seeking, triumphant Hood tale audiences are used to.