And the same can be said of Robin Hood. It is a mess of a film, giving us an origin story of a figure no one wants to know the origin of. We want the Sherriff of Nottingham, Maid Marion and the Merry Men. Here we get bits and bobs of all but nothing conclusive of any of them.
The biggest problem is that, you have such a high calibre actress like Cate Blanchett in role that shouldn't really come into the story until Robin enters Nottingham but they try and give a little bit more screen time and it weakens the film.
Russell Crowe is ever reliable and no one else could play this version of Robin. And all the other performances are solid. But I was just left wondering what was it all for?
And I am still wondering? It made me think of Kevin Costner's Robin Hood, and I will admit here in print that I love Prince Of Thieves. I mean it had Kevin Fucking Costner for one. Alan Rickman playing bad like no one else can. Morgan Freeman before he was THE Morgan Freeman and of course you had Bryan Adams singing his heart out with a song that stayed at number for about a zillion years.
Scott's Robin Hood, isn't about fun, its about being serious, it's about being real, it's about being epic. And in a way it gets there. But I much prefer the other partnerships of Scott and Crowe. The only reason I found to go to this film is is to watch one of the greatest actors and actresses of our time play off one another and that is where the film is brilliant. Everything else, all that comes to mind is 'Meh'.
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