Review of Robin Hood (2018) by Derekreide — 10 Mar 2019

I am aware that this movie has gotten the review it had gotten, and I respect that. I personally believe Robin Hood was a good movie in all, but it did have a flaw in my eyes. Hear me out here, I liked the movie and yes, I was among the forty-five percent of the audience who ended up enjoying this film.

I probably would've enjoyed it a tad more if they had implemented some more humor. So to start, Taron Egerton, Eve Hewson, Jamie Foxx, and the rest of the cast played really solid roles. But especially Ben Mendelsohn, he is just a perfect villain.

Whether it be in Ready Player One or Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, he just does a great villain role. So I really appreciated the fact that we got Ben as Sherrif Nottingham. We got great character performances and we also got great action sequences.

Classic modern bow and arrow action. That's what I call it. And rightfully so, it majorly succeeds in putting you at the edge of your seat. The onscreen chemistry is also pretty good between the actors and one thing I thought they could've toned down on was the romance scenes.

Now I didn't mind it as much, but it was used fairly excessively. I did understand as to why the romance scenes were kind of needed because of Rob's draft, which added to emotion somehow. The story I thought was pretty straight forward along with the central conflict.

What else is there to say here? I thought it was a pretty good action movie. Not the best, but in my opinion, it passed the remake "test". This movie, in my opinion, is an 8 out of 10.