Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | | Cast : | Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio | | Director : | Kevin Reynolds | | Studio : | Warner Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Widescreen | | Released Date : | June 14, 1991 | | DVD Released Date : | September 14, 2004 | | Language : | French (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 07, 2005 | | Summary | So awful you must be warned! | Content
 | This is one of the worst films I've ever seen. Fans of the great Morgan Freeman or Alan Rickman may be tempted to buy or rent this film, but it is my duty to warn you to resist. Morgan Freeman plays it straight and can't give a poor performance anyway, but we don't really care much about his character. Alan Rickman, though, goes way past camp. He's over the top without being entertaining. But camp was a logical choice, given the unbelievably bad script. Rickman's associate is a witch, Morgana, and that whole storyline is jaw-droppingly bad. It's not even clear if it's supposed to be scary or funny or campy or what. The witch seems to be popping in from some high school production of MacBeth and has nothing to do with the rest of the movie, which wants to be taken seriously. Maybe Rickman's performance would have worked if the direction weren't so bad and the director had cut the film differently. The worst thing about the film is Kevin Costner, who appears to be trying to win the award for worst performance of the 1990s. He's got my vote. I had no idea he was such a terrible actor. I had seen trailers of this movie and avoided it for years, but it's much worse than I even thought possible. Some of the supporting players are appealing--Nick Brimble as Little John is good--but the acting is generally very bad. The script is abyssmal, and, although the director can shoot arrows flying towards the camera, he manages to make it boring. If you enjoy Freeman's or Rickman's acting, try Amistad or The Shawshank Redemption with Freeman and Something the Lord Made or The Barchester Chronicles with Rickman. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 17, 2005 | | Summary | 3000 Miles to Crapland | Content
| Take the story of Robin Hood, the man who steals from the rich and gives to the poor, and crank it down a few notches below the Disney cartoon, throw in a bunch of actors who look like they'd rather be doing something else, and you have this movie. It's boring, long, and pointless. This could have been so much better with more care and less emphasis on getting the locations and the most popular actors of the time. Alan Rickman is the only redemption as the Sheriff of Nottingham...the talented Morgan Freeman is wasted in a useless role. There are better adaptations of this classic story out there. Skip this. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 06, 2005 | | Summary | Robin Hollywood and His Merry Supporting Cast | Content
| Another Hollywood action-packed/lightweight-acting movie seeking to modernize and glamorize history. I give one star to the film for Alan Rickman who was really the only good actor in this film. Otherwise, the film is an overblown super-hero comic book adaptation of the Robin Hood lore that is so Americanized (particularly with Costner's guttural accent)that it's inadvertently comical. The ridiculous inclusion of Morgan Freeman as the Moor sidekick was nothing more than Hollywood PC brownie points to make sure everybody is fairly represented even though a Muslim/Moor in England at that time would not have been very well received with the Third Crusade going on against the Infidel; but never mind all that, this is Hollywood fantasy after all even though they try to pose it as real history. The screenplay was OK but a good part of the script was nothing but a bunch of Hollywood jingoisms oversaturated with utterances of 'Freedom!; 'Our rights'; 'Liberty!' Unfortunately Hollywood forgets that the Magna Carta was not the Constitution and Saxon nobles were not the founders of the Republic. Hollywood seems to forget the fact that peasants were still serfs at the time bound to serve their Norman/Saxon lords without many rights or much representation as to anything. Robin of Locksley didn't change that status quo nor did he seem to care to: in those days the axe continued to drop quickly to sever the heads of the impertinent without much fanfare about personal rights. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 24, 2005 | | Summary | Only one reason to watch this movie....... | Content
| Alan Rickman. And the entire 3 stars in my rating go to him. I just actually saw this movie for the first time the other day, and he completely blew me away, he looked like he was having the time of his life playing the Sheriff. I agree with everyone who says he stole the movie. I loved how he just camped it up, he was almost going quite Python-esque in some scenes, just with his little mannerisms and quirks. I understand the director gave him free reign to play with the character however he wanted, and we should all be thankful for that! The movie on the whole would suck if he wasn't in it! |
| Rating | | | Date | April 03, 2005 | | Summary | A brilliant if somewhat inaccurate take on Robin Hood. | Content
| Although I never have had a concrete interpretation of the Robin Hood legend stories 1991's "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" is without a doubt one of my childhood favorite movies and could very well be my favorite movie starring Kevin Costner.
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