Title: As bad as it gets?
Product review: When I learned Russell Crowe would star in a new Robin Hood movie, I felt certain that at least it could not be as bad as the Kevin Costner rendition. Russell Crowe and Robin Hood surely would equal an intelligent and exciting film. But I was wrong. The problem begins with the screenplay, which apparently is another postmodern exercise in its boring faith in its perceptions to begin anew: it is an attempt to 'imagine' what kind of actual facts might have undergirded the growth of the legend. None of it, beyond the most obvious, is particularly plausible, and it does not add up to close to a satisfying whole. Its falsifying of history is much worse than anything in the Errol Flynn movie, because that clearly is meant to be just swashbuckling fun while this wants the audience to see it as saving people from the bad history of swashbucklers. If Russell Crowe is not ashamed of being in this movie, he is not as discerning as I thought him to be.
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