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Actually not too bad

posted 6 years ago by howgamer (3931)
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So got around to watching this and it was surprisingly entertaining. I thought it was going to be absolutely terrible. As long as you go in and forget everything about reality, physics, medieval society, or any type of historical accuracy I think you can enjoy this film as a fun action flick.

I thought they built a creative fantasy/modern world where bows and crossbows can be used as guns and machine guns and Nottingham is some kind of money pit for the church. Robin Hood is basically depicted as a superhero in this movie with his over-the-top abilities. I respect that they tried to do something different rather than just a run of the mill origin Robin Hood story. The actions scenes are overall great and the acting wasn't awful in the dramatic ones although there are some cringy moments ala "the Hood is your true identity and Robin of Loxley is the mask" lol.

My main gripes are that the last 1/4 or 1/3 of the film has terrible pacing. It felt like they needed to hit several plot points and just jammed them all together in one extremely long scene. It was also very anticlimactic.

Overall I found it entertaining. I would watch a sequel, not that it needs one nor will it get one.

[–] Bloodshot77 (13779) 5 years ago

It was actually very bad.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 5 years ago

This double posted, but the first post was incomplete. The full post is below.

Remember Star Trek, where all the technology worked perfectly?

[–] R_Kane (15828) 5 years ago

You’re right.It’s quite okay as a movie for the double-digit IQ set, which constitutes a large market; but it has NO RELATIONSHIP AT ALL TO THE LEGEND OF ROBIN HOOD. I kept expecting to see Stephen Amell to swing into the frame. Where are the Merry Men? Where is Alan a’Dale? Why isn’t Little John HUGE? This is a travesty of an alleged Robin Hood film. The pitch meeting was, “The only thing they know about Robin Hood is Arrow. With a lie this big, we can get away with anything [quoting a line from the film Doomsday].” No, you can’t; not with us who remember Errol Flynn, and the TV show with Richard Greene (“Robin Hood, Robin Hood/Riding through the glen/Robin Hood, Robin Hood/With his band of men/Feared by the bad, loved by the good/Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Robin Hood”), or the film, Robin and Marian. Also, let’s consider the Cardinal’s nitwitted plan to slaughter all the poor: So you want to kill off all your cheap labor and tax base? Where the hell did you study economics, Brainiac? Oh! It doesn’t matter! The script wants to show that he is EVIL. And that the Church created the myth of a Hell. You know: double-digit IQ target audience. This film offends me as a fan of Robin Hood (and even more of his Latin archetypal Counterpart, Zorro) and as a Christian. What a fiasco. It’s more like an extended version of Vikings, but with less muscle, pulchritude and violence. That’s sad.