Robin Hood

PG-13

11/21/20181h 56m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ The legend you know. The story you don’t. ~

Overview:

A war-hardened Crusader and his Moorish commander mount an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown.

Director:

Otto Bathurst

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$100,000,000.00

Revenue:

$86,493,046.00

Key words:

sheriff
affectation
robin hood
archer
sherwood forest
thief
nottingham
steampunk
middle ages (476-1453)
medieval
nostalgic
philosophical
hoodie
inspirational
absurd
dramatic
admiring
adoring
amused
earnest

Cast

Taron Egerton

~ as ~

Robin of Loxley

Jamie Foxx

~ as ~

Yahya / John

Ben Mendelsohn

~ as ~

Sheriff of Nottingham

Eve Hewson

~ as ~

Marian

Jamie Dornan

~ as ~

Will Scarlet

Tim Minchin

~ as ~

Friar Tuck

Paul Anderson

~ as ~

Guy of Gisbourne

F. Murray Abraham

~ as ~

Cardinal

Ian Peck

~ as ~

Arch Deacon

Cornelius Booth

~ as ~

Lord Pembroke

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Reviews (3)

Gimly
Written 6 year(s) ago
4
I just feel kinda bad for everyone involved. It was clear that whatever was supposed to happen, was tried at. Very hard. But it did not work.

Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product.
Ben
Written 4 year(s) ago
3
Meh. This is a big budget film that fails big at retelling a tale that's been told so many times before.

After many aborted starts, I have watched this movie twice within the past year. I didn't watch it multiple times because it was enjoyable and I wanted to experience it again. I watched it twice because it was so unmemorable that I didn't remember that I'd already seen it. Or maybe it was such an awful experience that my mind blocked it from my memories.

The most memorable line in the film comes as Marian discovers that Robin is the Hood.

"You call that a disguise!?", asks Miriam, referring to his hood which has become the public symbol of his thieving.

To which Robin replies: "Well, it fooled everybody else!"

I ask "You call this entertainment!?", but I won't wait for a reply.

I'd write more details about this film, but I can't bear to think about it. I mostly write this review as a reminder to my future self to not waste further time my watching this movie a third time.
GenerationofSwine
Written 2 year(s) ago
1
What is the name of that video game all the kids are playing? Assassins Creed is it? Something like that? Yeah, that's kind of what's going on here. Robin Hood is coming at you straight out of a video game.

And, it looks like a video game, which kind of makes it so much worse, because it's like watching an immature kid play a video game without the emotional investment of playing yourself.

And then they raise the stakes by making it so Ultra-Woke that they almost forget that the point of Robin Hood was that he stole from the rich to give to the poor in their effort to modernize the politics.

It's just a mess of video game inspired dialogue and action. Stay away.