January 7th Kevin Costner in...
Upon entering our third in the celebration of the Costner we come across one of the epics that paid off for him the 1991 classic tale of Mr. Hood and his merry men. This takes the franchise of Robin Hood in a much darker direction.
We begin with Robin in jail during the crusades he narrowly escapes with his new buddy Azeem (Morgan Freeman). They return home to find his lands sacked and his father murdered and called a devil worshiper. Robin quickly becomes an outlaw and takes to Sherwood forest where he bands with others and leads them to take on the evil sheriff (Alan Rickman). The story also follows Robins growing relationship with the maid Marian (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio).
What is so great about this look at the legendary Archer is that even though Costner can't do an English accent to save his life he really has surrounded himself with many people who can distract from his less then convincing Englishmen. The cast is really fantastic and it was the first time I ever got to see Rickman just tear up the screen by playing a really bad ass sheriff of Nottingham.
Not only does it have some excellent drama to it the action scenes are wonderfully done. It is almost shocking that director Kevin Reynolds who also directed Waterworld is responsible for this decent adaptation of the man from Sherwood.
This is one of Costner's better films even though like everything else it runs far over two hours but unlike Waterworld you don't feel like there is much that can be cut out. I really enjoyed this one and it brought me back to my childhood so check it out and look for my next Costner film which may or may not DELIVER.
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