Cast Russell Crowe
Cate Blanchett
Mark Strong
Scott Grimes
Kevin Durand
William Hurt
Matthew Macfadyen
Danny Huston
Oscar Isaac
Eileen Atkins
Max von Sydow
Screenwriter
Brian Helgeland
Director
Ridley Scott
Running Time
140 minutes
The Robin Hood adventure chronicles the life of an expert archer, previously interested only in self-preservation, from his service in King Richard's army against the French. Upon Richard's death, Robin travels to Nottingham, a town suffering from the corruption of a despotic sheriff and crippling taxation, where he falls for the spirited widow Lady Marion, a woman skeptical of the identity and motivations of this crusader from the forest. Hoping to earn the hand of Maid Marion and salvage the village, Robin assembles a gang whose lethal mercenary skills are matched only by its appetite for life. Together, they begin preying on the indulgent upper class to correct injustices under the sheriff. (Universal Pictures)
I get all the film plots from Metacritic which I assume gets them from the official studio information however reading it that is pretty inaccurate.
There's lots of characters and plots in it and the film jumps about not giving them enough time to develop, including the three merry men who don't really get to do much of anything. It put me in mind of the Kingdom of Heaven cinema release whether this went through the same thing I don't know. Near the end characters suddenly became aware of a fact about Robin Hood but the scene where they found that out wasn't there. A couple things struck me as crazy, the French landing craft looking like wooden versions of the WWII allied ones which maybe is accurate but looked mad like something out of A Knights Tale and Marion putting on armour and fighting. I don't think it works as a romance, historical drama or action movie that well really. There's a war with the French Robin takes part in some of it and hangs about drinking and talking when he's not. I liked it more than Iron Man 2 it's longer but it didn't seem to be.
