Robin Hood Reviews: Here is What The Critics Are Saying
Ever since the film has premiered at Cannes Film Festivals, you can find a "Robin Hood" review in every publication.
The story of Robin Hood and his band stealing from the rich to feed the poor is not a part of Russell Crowe’s new movie. In the new movie directed by Ridley Scott the attempt is to give a new perspective on Robin which is a more authentic story with the relevant social and economic history. It tries to explain as to how the iconic hero came to be known as the champion of the English people.
Given that generations have been brought up watching Robin Hood do the good things, this dark version might be little difficult o digest. The film is hitting theatres on Friday (May 14).
Scott's approach to the legend becomes persuasive," Mick LaSalle argued in the San Francisco Chronicle. "Instead of the usual romantic adventure, Scott and screenwriter Brian Helgeland offer a gritty drama, using the Robin Hood story to depict the birth pangs of liberty. They ground the film in the details of medieval life. We see how wars were fought — the various strategies and weaponry — and how news traveled. We see the attempts at pomp and splendor, the church bells and trumpets greeting the arrival of the king. Mainly we see harshness and ugliness."
Kurt Loder has said, "Much research has gone into getting all this medieval backstory right (or somewhat right)," "But the heavy scholarship turns the movie into what seems like a very long history lesson in a loud, dark and unusually muddy lecture hall. The endless battles, skirmishes and castle-stormings, accompanied by the usual arrow storms, head-axings and downpourings of boiling oil, are nothing we haven't seen before”.
In the new version of Robin Hood there is Russell Crowe. Owen Gleiberman has said, ""[T]he way Crowe plays Robin, which is heavily, without ever once modulating his impassive, minimalist squint, he's far too even-keeled to inspire us”.
Likewise quite a few fights in the movie are quite disappointing as per the review. "[T]he battles are so bland, the action so transparently choreographed and the characters so interchangeable, it's never clear who to root for or what to care about," Andy Lowe said onTotalFilm.com. "The choice mostly comes down to either 'Bad guy hit by an arrow. Good!' or 'Good guy hit by an arrow. Bad!' "
To sum up from the words of Shawn Levy from The Oregonian’s The story lines pile up, like the characters, needlessly: the struggle to impose a charter of rights on the king; the treacheries of the French; the secret past of Robin's father; the melding of Robin's troupe (with an utterly superfluous tribe of poaching orphan boys); the love story ... None of it comes together, and none of it makes you root for a second go-round in which, presumably, our hero would get on with the robbing-of-the-rich-and-giving-to-the-poor for which he's celebrated."
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