The bad reviews I keep reading for this Ridley Scott/Russell Crowe version of the Robin Hood myth are just making me want to go and see it more.
The problem most American critics seem to have is that it isn’t the “classic Hollywood” treatment of the tale… with tights, pointy shoes and stick fights over rivers. The problem with that is that there never was a set story to betray and I think what Rid and his team have tried to do is show us what did happen back then and from that work out where the legend came from.
But since the now rather tired series of events that is apparently the “set” Robin Hood legend is all that is fixed in the American consciousness it ain’t going down too well over there.
I get the feeling British reviewers sick of the same old plot mechanics will favour this retelling.
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