Robin Hood unites director ridley Scott with favorite leading man Russell crowe ,the story kicks of in France with Richard the lion heart and troops coming back from the crusades doing battle with the french,at this point robin is a gifted archer in the kings army however robin and his friends fall foul of the king when Robin gives him his true opinion of the kings deeds,the are put in shackles briefly but the king is soon killed in battle ,robin and his friends seize the opportunity and escape,on the way back the come across a band of knights charged with returning the crown to England the knights are ambushed but robin and company repel the attackers and retrieve the crown ,a dying knight entrusts robin to return his sword to his father ,they return the crown to old Blighty and robin returns the sword,the father coaxes robin into pretending to be his son and husband to his daughter in law Marion.,its a nice reworking of the robin hood legend but definitely an origin tale as he doesn't really become robin of the hood until the very end,theres also a lot of cloak and dagger stuff with king John a pantomime Esq turn by Oscar Issac and mark strong as a french double agent adept performance all round but Cate blanchett is a wonderful Marion.
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