Glucedee
It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.
Geraldine
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
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
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.
A_Different_Drummer
Oh dear.Of all the many reviews I have done for IMDb, this is the one I most dreaded having to pen.Because to do this review, I knew I would have to re-watch the film, a film I had spent some 25 years, a quarter century, trying to erase from my memory.But a job is a job. I not only intend to review the film but also, as a public service, to warn future generations, and children of those future generations, to avoid this production at all costs.And, should you ever actually see it, possibly due to a streaming malfunction, or a sticky key on your Personal Device, please do not judge those of us from that era (the 1990s) too harshly.We meant no harm. If you ever get a chance, have a peek at the definitive work on the "MADNESS OF CROWDS" written by Charles Mackay in 1841. It is no specific justification for this film, clearly, but it serves well as an apology for the circumstances that spawned it.Sometimes, you see, Hollywood and the viewing public get caught up in a collective fantasy about what entertainment is ... or, in this case, is not. During these periods of madness, certain stars, good though they may be, become insanely overexposed.In the current generation, for example, it is Sam Jackson. (The man is everywhere. I swear I bought a flat screen TV from him at a mall last week.) In the 90s it was Costner. He was a yeoman actor, yes, but to think he had the chops, or the athleticism, or the grace, or the youth, or even the accent .... to play Robin Hood? PA-LEEZE! And then, sweet Mercy, there is the script. A script that should have been destroyed before anyone blessed its lines with the immortality of celluloid. A film that cannot decide if it is a comedy or an action yarn. (The "Maid Marion Rape Scene" at the end, replete with jokes and a musical score, could be lowest point Hollywood ever touched since the silent film era.) Great yawning periods in the script ... where nothing happens. A "mass hanging" scene where the laws of physics are temporarily suspended and men who have effectively been hanged have to use their arms to support their own weight while Robin figures out a plan.Frankly I could go on but this review is painful enough.As for those IMDb members, contemporaries of the original release, who indicated this was "the best Robin Hood" they had ever seen, all I can do is apologize on their behalf. Disco was ending. Computers were coming into modern life. Pop Tarts were considered a complete breakfast. They really were not in full control of their faculties.Have you seen the Errol Flynn version? If not, please go to the Amazon page and order it.As for this version, we must never speak of it again. Ever.
