The County Press

Robin Hood can wait till it hits video


 

 

When I left the theater on Sunday afternoon, I didn’t like this movie very much.

Judging by the reaction of the other theater goers I was with, they hadn’t either.

But now, given a little more time, I’m starting to warm up to it.

No, it won’t win any awards.

Yes, it will show up on some, ‘worst movies of the year,’ lists, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t entertaining.

Was it as good as last year’s King

Arthur? No.

But Taron

Egerton’s smirky portrayal of Robin Hood was as good as any version since Cary Elwes in Robin Hood: Men in Tights.

The movie starts out with a woman, Marian (Eve Hewson, The Knick) trying to steal a horse from a spoiled lord of a manor in Nottingham. She is caught, but because of her beauty the man, Robin (Taron Egerton, Kingsmen) lets her take the horse in exchange for her name.

Thus begins the romance between the two, until Robin is drafted to fight the Moors by the Sheriff of Nottingham (Ben Mendelsohn, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story).

 

 

Four years later Robin finds himself pinned down by an oddly modern machine gun/ cross bow firing machine. He saves the day.

After the battle, all the Arabians are captured and being tortured for information. The commander (translated) Little John, said he’ll tell them anything, if they spare his son, who was about to be killed.

Robin steps up to protect the man, but it doesn’t help, the soldier Stars: Taron Egerton, Jamie is killed and Robin Foxx, Ben Mendelsohn shot. Director: Otto Bathurst But as he goes down, he Rating: PG-13 frees many of the Running time: 116 minutes Arabian soldiers.

Robin is sent home where he finds out his land has been claimed, Marian is working in the mines and his home is collapsing on itself.

The cast was very good and included Jamie

 

 

Dornan, Tim Minchin and F.

Murray Abraham.

The problem is the character is so well known that certain things are expected and not delivered.

— Lee

Morse