Robin Hood (2010)

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Robin Hood is fat? Old? WTF? Horrible movie that tries to make Robin Hood feel historical but it's just terrible. They try to turn it into a wannabe Braveheart at the end and it's an atrocity. No Sherwood forrest? No Little John? Will Scarlet? Friar Tuck? Just rubbish.

After his king dies and he escapes the war camp with three comrades, he witnesses an ambush, exterminates the remaining soldiers and plans to take back the king's crown (which was left in the fight) for a lifetime reward. Not only that his plans don't work accordingly, but he will soon be facing a big threat which puts his own country into peril.This movie realistically covers the adventures of Robin Hood before he began the legend we all know, how he seeks a peaceful life and how he ultimately defends England and is declared an outlaw because of his heroism and bravery. It's emotional with its main character's story, tragic through numerous familiar deaths, atmospheric with the world it creates and even emotional through the lives it describes.Its only problems were that it was somewhat predictable (in part because of its well-known main protagonist) and a bit boring due to its unnecessary length. A very good prequel I must say!

Famed director Ridley Scott presents a tale unlike any of the Robin Hood you may know. He is not even referred to as "Robin of the Hood" until the film's conclusion. Robin Longstride (Russell Crowe) comes across a dying Sir Robert Loxley (Douglas Hodge)and promises to return the man's sword to his family. Robin will assume the man's identity; romance Loxley's wife, Marion (Cate Blanchett) and manages to really draw the wrath of area outlaws as well as the Sheriff of Nottingham (Matthew Macfadyen).Scott's film actually tells the story of how a man can become Robin Hood and what happens to villages and countries that create such heroes. This is a well made movie with an extremely high level of talent. Well choreographed sequences of action and fighting.Top shelf cast also includes: Max von Sydow, Mark Addy, William Hurt, Oscar Isaac, Danny Huston, Mark Strong, Lea Seydoux, Scott Grimes and Kevin Durand.

As the recent King Arthur, Hollywood destroys a British myth by making the hero a war leader! You can argue what you want: Robin Hood is the good figure who steals the rich to give the poor! Here it's not at all about that as Robin becomes (in a ridiculous story) the defender of human rights or more accurately those of the barons! So it's particularly stupid and things gets aggravated with his poor romance (he takes the identity of a dead husband to get the wife!)... Sure with Scott directing, the movie is beautifully shot but he confirms his senility with another shameful choice of script! This war leader orientation was so dull that i left before the end while his armies arrives on the hills!