If you can get over the fact that this is most assuredly not the story of Robin Hood of Nottingham Forest, eternally battling the evil Sheriff of Nottingham for Maid Marion’s hand, you might find that Robin Hood is an interesting and exciting war movie set in medieval times with Robin Longstride (Russell Crowe) as the central character.
Every film exists within our experience of other films prior, and while I was watching Robin Hood it wasn’t earlier Robin Hood movies (most famously Errol Flynn) I thought about but rather The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Lord of the Flies and Monty Python and the Holy Grail that kept running through my mind, along with the under-appreciated hodge-podge that was Timeline, also set in medieval times but based in France, not England.

Wow, 140 minutes? Hmm. I guess I’ll wait for it on video, or let some guy take me if he wants 😛
I must agree with your assessment of the newest Hoodie-Rob film. Pretty enjoyable. Perfect? No. Wortha looksee? Yes.
Thanks for those comments. I was really wondering about this film. I saw the trailer, and it really seemed it was going to be exactly like what you just said. I did not catch any hint of the classic Robin Hood kind of theme. I was hoping for a rougher, tougher, not so Flynn-ish, men-in-tights Robin Hood, but it seems we were just given another gritty war movie with a confusing title.
Good review.
To be honest, I have no desire to see this film but I’ve heard that Crowe’s accent manages to span continents.