{"id":3456,"date":"2010-05-18T10:15:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T16:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flovalleynews.com\/?p=3456"},"modified":"2010-05-18T10:15:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T16:15:23","slug":"movie-review-robin-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flovalleynews.com\/?p=3456","title":{"rendered":"Movie review: Robin Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Russell Crowe<\/strong> is Robin Longstride before he\u00a0became Robin Hood in new epic film from Universal.<\/p>\n

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By Maggie Scott<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just the legendary man of Sherwood Forest who\u2019s launching target-piercing arrows in Robin Hood<\/em>, legendary director (Alien<\/em>) Ridley Scott\u2019s rousing historical action\/adventure.\u00a0 Cupid manages to hit the bulls eye to help a solemn archer who\u2019s seen too much of medieval warfare find his heart\u2019s desire, a fight he can believe in and a birthright worth dying for.<\/p>\n

Writer Brian Helgeland (Green Zone<\/em>) gives us a crusade-weary Robin Longstride (Russell Crowe) before he became Robin \u201cthe Hood,\u201d the outlaw leader of a merry band of disenfranchised and dislocated desperadoes in the last years of the 12th<\/sup> century.\u00a0 Robin\u2019s loyal service to Richard the Lionheart (Danny Huston) fighting Muslims has been tested by the cruelty and futile excesses he\u2019s witnessed and has given him little beyond prowess with the longbow to take back to England.<\/p>\n

Political intrigue assists Robin turning his back on Richard and his final disastrous plunder of a French castle.\u00a0 But, his liberty comes with a price: deliver the sword of a slain knight to the man\u2019s father; the final wish of one Robert Loxley of Nottingham.\u00a0 Before making good on his promise, Robin must also make good on Loxley\u2019s promise to Richard: to deliver the monarchy\u2019s crown to Eleanor (Eileen Atkins), Richard\u2019s mother, upon his death.<\/p>\n

Although she knows too well the inferior nature of his character, Eleanor crowns the ambitious head of Richard\u2019s brother, John (Oscar Isaac).\u00a0 With one promise kept, Robin makes his way to Nottingham, where he\u2019s taken in by Robert\u2019s father, Sir Walter (Max Von Sydow) and convinced to continue the assumed identity.\u00a0 While Sir Loxley soon takes a shine to Robin, it\u2019s a different matter for Marian (Cate Blanchett), Robert\u2019s widow.<\/p>\n

Although it\u2019s been ten long years since anything but dogs have shared her bedroom, she\u2019s not about to let Robin get any ideas.\u00a0 Although amused at the situation, Robin soon discovers how dire things are for the citizens of Nottingham: shortages of food and men to work the fields\u2014and, now, an onerous decree from the king that his subjects must increase their \u201cfair share\u201d of the money and grain needed to support the monarchy and its armies.<\/p>\n

Although Eleanor and others, such as William Marshal (William Hurt), plead the case of the suffering people, it falls on deaf ears.\u00a0 John appears to be blind, as well, when he fails to see that his friend, Godfrey (Mark Strong), who is only English \u201cwhen it suits him,\u201d has decided his road to power is to assist France\u2019s King Philip in an invasion of England.\u00a0 Because John hasn\u2019t figured out how to bring unity to a country still struggling with Norman versus Saxon rivalry, Philip believes he could \u201ctake London with an army of cooks.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, that\u2019s before Marshal convinces the barons to convene a council to plan their defense of England. Nor before Nottingham is brutally attacked by Godfrey; and before Robin learns that he had a father who died at the hands of tyrants determined never to see his dream—that high and low born alike be united through \u201cliberty by law\u201d—become reality.\u00a0 With barons and archers at his side, Robin faces Godfrey and the French and \u201ctakes his place in history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although not as stirring as Crowe\u2019s work for Ridley Scott in Gladiator<\/em>, there is still much to get the heart pounding\u2014not least of which the way in which Crowe speaks the words, \u201cAsk me nicely,\u201d to a defiant Marian on the first night she must reluctantly (for the servants\u2019 sake) request that Robin join her in her bedchambers.\u00a0 Tally ho!\u00a0 A Universal Pictures release, rated PG-13 for violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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