Robin Hood review

[alobear]

Apart from Marian turning up on the battlefield with a groups of children on ponies during the final battle, this was the best film I've seen in quite a while.

It was mostly well written, generally well performed, and definitely well directed, and kept me fully entertained for nearly two and a half hours.

I liked the fact that the Sherrif of Nottingham was completely ineffectual, I liked that fact that King John's ego made him do an about face on the charter at the end because Robin stole his thunder on the battlefield, and I liked how the film as a whole gradually built up a background to the Robin Hood mythos, making the story it told unfamiliar but taking it to a familiar conclusion.

Russell Crowe has certainly still got it - I've never found him attractive, but he makes a very convincing historical hero, here very much drawing on Maximus from Gladiator, though perhaps with slightly more humour.

All the period detail was amazing, as you would expect from Ridley Scott - the only issue being with the wandering accents.

Overall, an excellent evening's entertainment, with the added bonus of seeing the hilarious Scott Pilgrim Vs The World trailer for the first time - that one's going straight on the list for future viewing.


Comments

[prunesquallormd.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I really want to see this now.
I loved Gladiator.
(Annoyingly, my usual cinema companion doesn't like Russel Crowe and thinks that her opinion of someone as a person somehow makes a different to them as an actor, which I find utterly exasperating, but whatever).

I find dodgy accents a lot easier to forgive in historical stuff. It's not like they can be at all accurate after all. They're speaking modern English, for one thing.

[alobear.livejournal.com]

I don't generally mind if the accents are *wrong* - I'd just prefer it if they were consistent.

Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett moved backwards and forwards between Irish, West Country, Yorkshire, Home Counties, and American throughout the film, which was a little distracting. I wouldn't have minded at all if they'd just picked *one* and stuck with it, whatever it was.