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28 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanRobin Hood is no classic, but if it sometimes seems like it’s trying to be “Baz Luhrmann’s Robin Hood,” more power to it. The movie is a diverting live-wire lark — one that, for my money, gets closer to the spirit of what Robin Hood is about than the logy 1991 Kevin Costner version or the dismal 2010 Russell Crowe version.
- On all fronts, it strives to twist the Robin Hood story into something more provocative, but ultimately it’s a garbled, hollow mess of attempts at relevancy.
- 45IGNWilliam BibbianiIGNWilliam BibbianiIt’s a straightforward retelling with a confusing design philosophy, disappointing action sequences, weak storytelling and a cast which clearly deserved better material.
- 42TheWrapYolanda MachadoTheWrapYolanda MachadoRife with stereotypes, a terrible script, and odd “300”-esque cinematography that just doesn’t fit, this is not only a film nobody asked for, but also one that nobody should be forced to endure.
- 40The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThis bloated, featureless, CGI-heavy movie is not so much stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, as stealing from Guy Ritchie, Batman, Two-Face and a few others – and not giving back all that much to the audience.
- 40EmpireDan JolinEmpireDan JolinLike Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur, this tries hard to do something new and exciting with an old formula. It quickly makes you wish for something more traditional and straightforward.
- 30The New York TimesGlenn KennyThe New York TimesGlenn KennyThe plot is twisty in a perfunctory way, the action predictably explosive, the sought-after exhilaration nonexistent.
- 25IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichIf nothing else, this accidentally hilarious, goofy train wreck of an origin story most definitely has the courage of its convictions. Alas, the film isn’t smart enough to recognize that its convictions are dumb, and it doesn’t have the goods to back them up in the first place.
- 25New York PostJohnny OleksinskiNew York PostJohnny OleksinskiThe latest labored take on the old British legend, Robin Hood is little more than a pitch-black war film, complete with rudimentary medieval bombs and blood spatter on the camera lens.
- 20The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyMendelsohn's villain is boringly one-note, Eve Hewson's Marion uses an incongruous Yank accent and always looks as though she's just stepped out of the makeup trailer, F. Murray Abraham swans around in fancy cardinal's vestments looking sinister and Foxx seems pissed off that he's not somewhere, perhaps anywhere, else. As for Egerton, he's a boy doing a man's job.