This movie was the theme to my nineties. I watched it over and over and over until the tape got stuck in the VCR one day. Then I forgot about it until recently. I didn't appreciate the humor in this movie and really get what it was going for. It's a bit 30's swashbuckling pirate movie mixed with some pretty funny 90's type humor and a pretty decent love story. I have seen all the Robin hood's (except for one coming out this year 2018) and think it's still the best.

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is the best adaptation of the Robin Hood of I watched , the cast is already very good , Kevin Costner does a great Robin Hood , Morgan Freeman as always look great and still have the great Alan Rickman makes a great villain , you feel anger, film photography is very good, the landscapes are good, the costumes are great, the direction is good , the action scenes are good, it's even better when you know that this movie is 1991 , the film also has a good humor, the film does not get to be so violent in battles such as the Braveheart would a movie four years later, more is understood by the fact that the release gap is great, and Braveheart has much more resources , Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is a good film, which gives to spend time watching , and still having a great cast is very funny moments. Note 7.6

I know Kevin Costner took some acting classes in college but what I wonder is...did he fail?! In my opinion, and i realize it's just my opinion, he is one of the worst actors in Hollywood! He always sounds like he's rehearsing a script. I read a lot of reviews and, quite frankly,I can not understand all the good reviews this movie received. Perhaps those reviewers allowed Costner's good looks and charm sway their opinions! I suffered through 32 minutes of the movie and that was all I could take. Robin Hood is a classic...books, TV shows and movies...but something went sadly wrong with this one. Even Robin Hood:Men in Tights was far more entertaining. And dare I say, even the great Morgan Freeman was a bit off his mark in this one. The scenery was good, the direction suffered little, but the script and the acting wasn't worth 2 hrs and 23 minutes!

I recently watched this to see how it held up over time and unfortunately its age is starting to show. American audiences in the early 1990s didn't get hung up on details like cultural accuracy, but today, thankfully, they are more discerning. The frivolity of 1990s film making is beginning to show through in the numerous cracks in this film, yet it still manages to be entertaining in spite of Kevin Costner not even attempting a British accent, or any of the other numerous flaws. I don't know if this is a spoiler or not but for example, at the film's climax Costner and Freeman are trying to bash through a door that has been barred on the other side. Somehow the witch character appears inside the room, then on the outside where she confronts them, then at the very end she's back inside the room hiding for the right moment to pop out and surprise everyone...all while the door is still barricaded and Morgan freeman is still bashing away trying to get in. Oh well, overall the film still manages to be somewhat entertaining (probably thanks to Alan Rickman) but if you saw this in the early 1990s you might cringe watching it now.