Ridley Scott's Robin Hood

I saw the film yesterday. I would give it 5/10 a very avrage film. I thought the acting was quite bad and halfway through the film i did not really know what was going on. I thought the film was very fast and i hated the fighting scenes.

Not a film i will be buying when it comes out.
 
I don't mind it being long it's the lack of direction tha I struggled with. If didn't appear to know where it was going and what it was supposed to be. It wasn't an action film as there wasn't enough of that to give it that label. Equally it wasn't a love story. You didn't really see the relationship between Robin and Marion develop.

I think it doesn't help that it's called Robin Hood. He didn't really become Robin of the Hood until after the events of this film. It would be like making a film called Spiderman and just doing a film about Peter Parker and say well Spiderman happens after this film finishes.

What was the point of the Merry Men in this film? What did they do and actually contribute to the story? Did you feel they they had a close relationship and thought of each others as "brothers" and would lay their lives down for each other? I didn't. Of all the Merry Men the only one that got any decent characterisation was Friar Tuck. The rest could have just been anybody or even not used at all in the film. If there is to be a sequel you could just have easily introduced them in that film and base it around Robin now an outlaw and building up his gang.
Hed the characterisation been better it would have made the slower parts of the film more interesting and made it flowed better.

IMO the lack of direction for the film, a weak plot and poor characterisation are a bigger problem than the pacing and length of the film.
 
I like the way the French were portrayed as the "Baddies" when in the beginning, we were sacking French Castles.
And where did the French get WW2 landing craft in 1500?, they never actually invaded, or tried to.
 
A group of us were discussing the movie whilst out for a pub lunch the other day and came to a similar conclusion. Crowe's wandering accent made us all smile but the film was a fairly decent watch though does not live up to the pre-hype.
 
For almost all of the first half, he sounded Irish. There were moments when he did sound more Nottingham/Yorkshire, but they were few and far between.

He also spoke in a low grunt throughout.

I would suggest that Gerard Butler should have aimed for a Nottingham accent when he did PS I Love You. Might have helped.
 
just seen this on dvd .

it's the director's cut .

hmm - it's ok , but it goes on a bit and isn't very exciting . Crowe's accent is all over the place .

even tho it takes it's time there are certain bits which seem rushed thru , particularly the end where King John goes back on his word .
 
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