kelinjoshua
I have been reading some comments about this movie, and most of them have been negative. They should realise that this movie is not like the normal robin hood you would watch, it is a more realistic type movie. I have to say Kevin Costner and Alan Rickman were the best casting choice ever. The Movie was executed amazing starting small then going for the big things. This movie is very underrated and it's one of the movies where you could just watch it again and again. This and "The Bodyguard" is Kevin's best movies
michaelthompson-98713
I'm a huge Robin Hood fan, but there was something lacking in this movie that I can't quite put my finger on, but i'll try.Alan Rickman playing the Sheriff of Nottingham was too humorous, and Kevin Kosner did not convey the Robin Hood character that i've grown up with.The rest of the cast did their best, and did I hear the "f" word used by Christian Slater ?.Also I thought Morgan Freeman was miscast.I give this movie 2 for effort.
bkoganbing
I have to say I was quite skeptical about the casting of all American Kevin Costner as the legendary medieval British outlaw Robin Hood. But you watch the film a few times and Costner kind of grows on you. He's not quite in the same mold as Douglas Fairbanks, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene and of course Errol Flynn.Still this film has a lot to offer for the lavish amount of money spent on it. We get a multi-cultural Robin Hood and a character who was doing a lot of running around with Robin and the Merry Men like Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlett and the rest that being Morgan Freeman playing Azeem. It seems as though Robin Of Locksley was captured by the Moors on the way back from the Crusades and helping him make an escape is Freeman who has his own reasons for wanting to flee his own people. After a while Freeman seems to fit in with the gang from Sherwood Forest.What's really fascinating here is the elevation of the Sheriff of Nottingham who is lifted a few notches from ordinary villainy. Alan Rickman is a poor relation to the royal family and he's playing for far bigger stakes than bribes that come with his occupation. He's got most evil designs on Maid Marian and it is emphasized that as a medieval maid should be she's chaste. Rickman's going to put an end to that and he plans to marry her and claim a piece of that throne one way or another while King Richard is held for ransom by his foreign enemies. Rickman also dabbles in the black arts assisted by a witch played by Geraldine McEwan, most sinister and most effective. Rickman is the guy to watch here even if he does go a bit over the top at times.Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves got only one Oscar nomination for the song Everything I Do I Do It For You, one of the best ballads of the 90s. Bryan Adams who introduced and had a hand in writing it plays a character simply entitled balladeer. Why that is so I don't know because the Merry Men did have their own balladeer Alan-A-Dale. He should have been given that character name. Costner ain't Errol Flynn, but no doubt he's the modern Robin Hood.
Francisco Sousa Faria da Silva
Personally, this is one of my favorite movies of all time. In my opinion it's also the best adaptation alongside "The Adventures of Robin Hood" with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland.There's something magical about this movie. I love the story, the actors, the costumes, the places, the colors, the music! Everything seems to fit well and in my opinion, the result is a wonderful adventure and romantic movie.Michael Kamen's music is also another strong point and helps the viewers to travel to time period of the story, something he did again in "The Three Musketeers" two years later. The movie has some good values to pass to young audiences. It deals with friendship, honor, courage, injustice and righteousness.All in all, I love this movie and I can watch it over and over again and never tire of it.
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