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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

Action | 143 minutes / 155 minutes (extended edition)
3,38 1.855 votes

Genre: Action / Adventure

Duration: 143 minuten / 155 minuten (extended edition)

Country: United States

Directed by: Kevin Reynolds

Stars: Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman and Alan Rickman

IMDb score: 6,9 (212.785)

Releasedate: 14 June 1991

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves plot

"Sometimes the only way to uphold justice... is to break the law."

Robin of Locksley is imprisoned in Turkey after the Crusades. He escapes thanks to the help of Moorish fellow prisoners. When the two return to England, Robin learns that his father has been killed by the Sheriff of Nottingham and that the people are oppressed by him. He flees to Sherwood Forrest to join the people of Sherwood in a rebel fight against the sheriff.

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Robin of Locksley / Robin Hood

Will Scarlett

Sheriff of Nottingham

Lord Locksley

Guy of Gisborne

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avatar van Roger Thornhill

Roger Thornhill

  • 5743 messages
  • 2290 votes

All I remembered from a quarter of a century ago were Alan Rickman's shameless scene-stealing ("Shut up, you TWIT!") and Morgan Freeman's side job as a midwife, a scene that stood out to me as long, bloody and dramatic but which in practice turned out to be about a minute, so that means that of the remaining 140 minutes only the impression of good clean fun was left, not really a compliment to the movie. Fortunately, the review was still very entertaining, with a beautiful Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, a moderately athletic Kevin Costner and a very dignified Morgan Freeman, but without Alan Rickman this would have been a pretty mediocre 1940s adventure film. We will still miss him.

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avatar van kissyfur

kissyfur

  • 325 messages
  • 498 votes

I had never given this one a rating, although I've seen it many times. Last night he was on it, and after fifteen minutes or so I zapped to it,
And wow, it was all clumsy. Sweet music. Clichés like when you flee with a horse and jump over a stone wall, for effect, a few stones fall from the wall. And that several times. Kevin Costner with 80s/90s haircut with mat. Anyway: the American and Australian accents of the main actors. Contemporary language with the occasional 'shall'. Alan Rickman who adds a bit of humor in it and makes it the nicest part, but is too theatrical. I like Michael Wincott as Guy or Gisburne better than as a crook.
And then the stupid stuff in the story! The Celts (who by the way are dismissed as barbarians since they were the original inhabitants) attack the hideout in the village. And what do you see? Everyone runs back and forth while Robin grabs a bunch of arrows and shoots four Celts. Half an hour earlier we saw in a montage that everyone was trained in fighting and archery. Why everyone is running around a bit is not explained.
Or Christian Slater (really?) who has a small part all the time but suddenly explodes super over the top because he hates Robin because he's his half brother... And I could go on and on.


No, as a teenager I always faithfully watched the 80's BBC TV series. I don't think I should see that again, but it is clear that Costner's version is about as bad as Gere's First Knight.

It is indeed more of a family film, but I won't be feeding this one to the kids anytime soon. Apart from the fact that there are much better family films, it is also not so pleasant if I have to chuckle all the time because it is so cringingly bad.

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avatar van ROX

ROX

  • 48 messages
  • 791 votes

For me this is the best Robin Hood film adaptation: good actors and actress (that running is laughable), great action, beautiful music and a good dose of humor, has stood the test of time quite well.

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