Bluntly political and surprisingly coherent in its messaging, the movie is filled with deliberately modern details signaling that it's a folktale aimed at modern multiplex. Chris Stuckmann reviews Robin Hood, starring Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx, Ben Mendelsohn, Eve Hewson, Tim Minchin, Jamie Dornan. Those movies were bold, cheerful, and flamboyant.
Nope, but it is a great time at the movies, and sometimes that's all you need. Someday we'll get a new Robin Hood film that lives up to the jaunty adventures we adored as children, but we're currently about as far away from that as we can get. The more Robin Hood strives for this-just-in relevance, the more it seems hopelessly old-hat.
Friar Tuck begins the movie with a directive to "forget history, forget what you think you know, forget what you've heard before." You'd be better off remembering not to waste your cash on this toxic. A failure on every level, no one comes away from this movie clean, including the usually charming Taron Egerton and the often amusing Ben Mendelsohn. Less Alan Rickman in Prince of Thieves and more Rickman in Quigley Down Under, Mendelsohn's. To contrast, "Robin Hood," directed by Otto Bathurst from a script by Ben Chandler and David James Kelly, huffs and puffs right off the bat, expending a lot of energy to tell you this isn't your father's, or your grandfather's, Robin Hood movie. Robin Hood is an adventure thriller flick scripted by Ben Chandler and David James Kelly and directed by Otto Bathurst. Review for the film " Robin Hood".
Trailer Robin Hood
Though Robin Hood is retelling a familiar story, it takes a few liberties in the name of modernization. After moving in with his girlfriend Marian (Eve The movie's viewpoint isn't subtle, but those scant few images also mark Robin Hood at its most risky and intelligent. This week Robin Hood is coming back to our theaters to rob the rich, give to the poor, and hopefully storm the box office.
When reviewing films based on the legend of Robin Hood one can't help but get caught up in all the men in tights who have trod across the movie screen in previous stints as the original dark knight. Despite an abundance of computer generated arrows flying around in scene after scene in Robin. Robin Hood, starring Taron Egerton and Ben Mendelsohn and Eve Hewson, is a cinematically and politically incoherent movie salad. Not that this should be how we watch movies, especially movies as immaterial as Robin Hood.