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Fandango latest reviews Search movie Russell Crowe is "Robin Hood." showtimes and buy Just Wright tickets. Robin Hood Letters to Juliet Ricky BY ROGER EBERT / May 12, 2010 about us Robin Hood more current releases » Little by little, title by title, About the site » innocence and joy is being one-minute movie reviews drained out of the movies. cast & credits Site FAQs » What do you think of when you hear the name of Robin Robin Russell Crowe still playing Contact us » Hood? I think of Errol Flynn, Marion Cate Blanchett Sean Connery and the Walt Sir Walter Max von Sydow Brooklyn's Finest Disney character. I see Email the Movie William Marshal William Hurt 45365 Robin lurking in Sherwood Answer Man » Godfrey Mark Strong Forest, in love with Maid After.Life Marian (Olivia de Havilland Prince John Oscar Isaac Ajami on sale now or Audrey Hepburn), and Richard Danny Huston Alice in Wonderland roistering with Friar Tuck The Art of the Steal Universal Pictures presents a film and the Merry Men. I see a Babies dashing swashbuckler. directed by Ridley Scott. Written by The Back-up Plan Brian Helgeland. Running time: 131 That Robin Hood is Blood Done Sign My Name minutes. Rated PG-13 (for violence, nowhere to be found in The Bounty Hunter including intense sequences of Ridley Scott’s “Robin Hood,” Chloe starring Russell Crowe as a warfare, and some sexual content). City Island warrior just back from fighting in the Third Printer-friendly » Clash of the Titans Buy now » Crusade. Now Richard is E-mail this to a friend » Cop Out dead, and Robin is The Crazies essentially an unemployed Creation mercenary. This story is a Date Night prequel. It takes place entirely before Robin got to be a folk hero. The idea of taking from the Death at a Funeral rich and giving to the poor was still in storyboard form. Grieving Diary of a Wimpy Kid Richard the Lionhearted and now facing the tyrant King John, Robin District 13: Ultimatum leads an uprising. The Eclipse Exit Through the Gift Shop Buy now » This war broadens until, in the words of the movie’s synopsis, “it will Formosa Betrayed forever alter the balance of world power.” That’s not all; “Robin will become an eternal symbol of freedom for his people.” Not bad for a The Ghost Writer man who, by general agreement, did not exist. Although various The Girl on the Train obscure bandits and ne’er-do-wells inspired ancient ballads about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo such a figure, our image of him is largely a fiction from the 19th The Good Guy http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100512/REVIEWS/100519992 Page 1 of 3 Robin Hood :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews 10-05-17 6:03 PM

The Good Guy century. The Good Heart But so what? In for a penny, in for a pound. After the death of The Greatest Richard, Robin Hood raises, arms and fields an army to repel a Green Zone Buy now » French army as it lands on an English beach in wooden craft that look Greenberg uncannily like World War II troop carriers at Normandy. His men, Happy Tears welding broadswords, backed by archers, protected from enemy Harry Brown arrows by their shields, engage the enemy in a last act devoted almost entirely to nonstop CGI and stunt carnage in which warriors clash in Home confused alarms and excursions, and Russell Crowe frequently Hot Tub Time Machine appears in the foreground to whack somebody. How to Train Your Dragon Hubble 3D Subsequently, apparently, Robin pensioned his militia and retired to The Human Centipede Sherwood Forest to play tag with Friar Tuck. That’s my best guess; at Iron Man 2 Buy now » the end the film informs us, “and so the legend begins,” leaving us with the impression we walked in early. The Joneses Just Wright Ah, you say, but what of Maid Marion? In this telling, Marion (Cate Kick-Ass Blanchett) is not a maid but a widow, and not a merry one. At one The Last Song point she threatens to unman Robin with her dagger, which is unlike Leaves of Grass the Maid Marions I’ve known and loved. Blanchett plays the role with great class and breeding, which is all wrong, I think. She’s the kind of Letters to Juliet woman who would always be asking Robin, “Why do you let that The Losers smelly so-called friar hang around you like a fanboy?” The Most Dangerous Man in America Buy now» Mother If you listen closely to the movie’s commercials, you may hear of a My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done royal edict being issue against “Robin of the Hood.” A hood, in medieval English, was of course a wood or forest — a point that may Nick Nolte: No Exit be lost on many of the commercial’s viewers. A Nightmare on Elm Street North Face “Robin Hood” is a high-tech and well made violent action picture using Our Family Wedding the name of Robin Hood for no better reason than that it’s an The Perfect Game established brand not protected by copyright. I cannot discover any Please Give sincere interest on the part of Scott, Crowe or the writer Brian Buy now» Helgeland in any previous version of Robin Hood. Their Robin is A Prophet another weary retread of the muscular macho slaughterers who with Red Riding Trilogy interchangeable names stand at the center of one overwrought Remember Me bloodbath after another. Repo Men Ricky Have we grown weary of the delightful aspects of the Robin Hood legend? Is witty dialogue no longer permitted? Are Robin and Marion Robin Hood no longer allowed to engage in a spirited flirtation? Must their The Runaways relationship seem like high-level sexual negotiations? How many The Secret in Their Eyes people need to be covered in boiling oil for Robin Hood’s story to be The Secret of Kells Buy now» told these days? How many parents will be misled by the film’s PG-13 She's Out of My League rating? Must children go directly from animated dragons to skewering and decapitation, with no interval of cheerful storytelling? A Shine of Rainbows Shutter Island Lose 46 Lbs in 3 The photography is, however, remarkable, and Crowe and the others The Square Months? are filled with fierce energy. Ridley Scott is a fine director for work like Terribly Happy Discover the this, although in another world, Hollywood would let him make smarter That Evening Sun Shocking Truth films. God, he must be tired of enormous battle scenes. About Canada's Vincent: A Life in Color Hottest Diet... Vincere WeeklyHealthC… Waking Sleeping Beauty Penny Stock News & Alerts $36/hour Work Get hot tips and alerts on the top penny Who Do You Love? Online job. No scam. www.PennyStocksAlerts.com The Yellow Handkerchief Realistic $36 per more current releases » hour. No schedule. Nice pay. Obama Urges Homeowners to Refinance www.Pittsburg… Rates Hit 3.62% APR! on dvd www.SeeRefinanceRates.com new on dvd

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