Movie Review: "Robin Hood" (2010)An early-on World Premiere at Cannes Film Festival in its 63rd Edition, "Robin Hood" reinvented to a medieval-warfare-realism approach by director Ridley Scott delivers action-adventure-entertainment all around with a committed as matching leading couple portrayed by Cate Blanchett as Marion and Russell Crowe as Robin.If the audience expected witches at black masses, they are in the wrong movie. This "Robin Hood" comes closer to Ridley Scott's signature-defining masterpiece "Gladiator" (2000), which nevertheless shows the patience and pacing of a matured director in this one and only 130-Minute theatrical cut by long-term collaborator at Scott Free productions editor Pietro Scalia, sharing massive depth-of-field in fulminate-translated 200-Million-Dollar production budget towards green-dominated rural English landscapes, on-set location of taking action with hand, sword, bow and arrow, accompanied by down-to-earth convincing property as costume designs by Janty Yates.Director Ridley Scott convinced by shooting a Three-Camera-Capturing-System executed to full immersive states of tracking, pushing, pulling and booming camera angles of superior production values by cinematographer John Mathieson preaching utmost hyper-realism in elements of fire, earth and water; decisive moments when "Robin Hood" (2010) is able to exceed the further comic-beats-entertaining "Prince of Thieves" starring Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman and Alan Rickman as Sheriff of Nottingham of summer 1991. This "Robin Hood" should have been a smash hit of Holiday Season 2010/2011, when a summer-leisure-seeking target audience of the young, beautiful adult identifying with supporting cast was not sufficient conviction in a nevertheless gripping screenplay by Brian Helgeland, blessed in ranging plot-interpretations from actor Oscar Isaac over actress Léa Seydoux to Mark Strong as menacing Robin's character nemesis Godfrey, when acting mastery by William Hurt and Max von Sydow brings additional calmly-received empathetic relations in constant-conflicting, fight-for-your-right characters translated into cold-winter-months pleasures and thrills of several-watches-possible, high-end motion picture entertainment.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

I have watched this movie 3 times in a time line of 4 years and yet i m writing the review in 2017 cz Robin hood deserves to be watched by every one who lives out of normal DC OR Marvel universe. With an intense story line and incredible shot of small town it was little darker version of my childhood superhero. incredible tid bits are what sold this movie to be in my list of watch it again movie like 5. When crowe rescues cate from the quicksand and the mayor comes and cate gives this "beaming glance" to the mayor when crowe carries her away. 4.the intimacy between the two characters when they dance by the fire. 3.the arrow short sequence from the mountain. Breathtaking!!! 2. the sassy queen mother talking the mistress out in queenly manner to save her son and the country. 1. When hood is declared an outlaw the mayor puts a poster on the tree and he asks for something to nail the poster and there comes swinging my favorite shot of the entire movie. Ridley Scott has never disappointed when it comes to his art of direction. The angle to description of each element is detailed.

Who doesn't like Russell Crowe? For that reason alone, this is a must see movie if for nothing else to keep up with Russell and his work. Of course the topic of Robin Hood is always interesting as stories go. If that is not enough, who doesn't love Ridley Scott? Another good reason to visit this flick. I was disappointed that after such a good set-up that they didn't do a sequel. What a shame because they established Robin Hood, King John, The Sheriff, Robins merry men and Sherwood Forrest. After all that, the sequel was ready to go but alas the box office made the final decision. I enjoy Cate Blanchett but in this movie, she tended to ham it up a bit and to people who follow her that is acceptable. For me it was overdone. Everything else is realistic and well presented passing the believe ability test no problem. I recommend a sandwich with this movie and a tasty drink with a snack to follow for maximum enjoyment.

God almighty! This Robin Hood is catastrophic, period. On top of that, the lack of humbleness reaches the unthinkable. I've heard Russell Crowe , the new Robin Hood, referring to Errol Flynn's version as crap. Crap? Can you imagine! Errol Flynn made that movie "The Adventures Of Robin Hood" in 1939 and people still watch it today, 77 years later, with utter delight. Russell Crowe's "Robin Hood" was made only 7 years ago and it's already forgotten. I was appalled by his comment and realized that Oscar winner or not, wisdom or knowledge is not part of the equation. I've heard Russell Crowe in a different interview saying he never trained as an actor. He claims he doesn't know anything about Stanislavski and more importantly, he doesn't care to know. What a message to send to the new generations.