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At one point, the corrupt Sheriff of Nottingham, who's presented as a Trump-Bolsonaro-Le Pen-styled nationalist/racist despot, quotes George W. The dialogue is likewise packed with modern aphorisms and political slogans that seem meant to lodge in the mind and incite passions. An opening action sequence set in Syria has stuttering handheld camerawork in the vein of " Saving Private Ryan" and " Black Hawk Down." Marian has circa 2016 smoky-eye makeup, the costuming showcases some of the yummiest custom-cut leather jackets in cinema history, and the combat sequences feature archers rapidly firing arrows at each other at close quarters, like gunfighters in a John Wick film.
It often apes the look and feel of Christopher Nolan's Batman films, trading energy for elegance, and enthusiastically owning its many, blatant anachronisms.
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Like Guy Ritchie's recent attempt to update another ancient English hero in " King Arthur: Legend of the Sword"-and, for that matter, Kevin Reynold's 1991 hit "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves," from which this film borrows freely-this is a loud, fast, choppy production, with a punkish yet earnest edge. They require little prompting to join Robin's campaign to give gold and hope back to people who've been abused or taken for granted by the state.īen Chandler and David James Kelly's script takes a story that's several centuries old and marries it to modern-day concepts and language, and the filmmakers try to push that strategy to the next level. At the same time, Robin ingratiates himself into the Sheriff's inner circle, gathering intelligence for his growing rebellion, and uncovering a conspiracy to subjugate the people that's even more awful than what he'd imagined. The film's supporting heroes-including Robin's former fiancee Maid Marian ( Eve Hewson) and the local clergyman Friar Tuck ( Tim Minchin)-are quite jaded about the world. Robin, John and their allies start stealing gold from the bad guys, Robin's face-concealing black hood becoming a revolutionary emblem on par with the Guy Fawkes mask. Robin is joined by the Saracen Little John ( Jamie Foxx), who becomes his friend and mentor after Robin risks treason charges to save John's son during the Crusades. He battles the cruel and corrupt Sheriff of Nottingham ( Ben Mendelsohn) after returning home and realizing that the bad guy has taxed his community into oblivion to fund the war effort. This incarnation of Robin of Locksley ("Kingsman: The Secret Service" star Taron Egerton) is a traitor to his class-a veteran of the Crusades who is literally to-the-manor born. Instead, it's a flat and often grating experience, dotted by pockets of intelligence and surprise. If the filmmaking and writing weren't so undistinguished, this could have been special.
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Bluntly political and surprisingly coherent in its messaging, the movie is filled with deliberately modern details signaling that it's a folktale aimed at modern multiplex audiences, closer to a science fiction or fantasy epic than a " Barry Lyndon"-style "accurate" representation of life in another era.
This new version from director Otto Bathurst ("Peaky Blinders") captures the heart of the legend, but frustratingly fails to translate it.
"Robin Hood" is a malleable tale, but the core is always the same: a cocky underdog fights the power on behalf of mistreated citizens. Its hero is credible as a man who wants to rob from the rich and give to the poor, but the storytelling is so impoverished that the message can't stick. You could build a suspension bridge over the gap between what "Robin Hood" could have been and what it is.
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