Robin Hood (2018)

“The Legend You Know. The Story You Don't.”

Filmology Rating: 1.5 out of 4

I loved it. This was so bad that I loved it. It's been a while since I've seen a movie that is so bad and funny at the same time. I think the most shocking thing is how this film was made.
The director and writers of this film have done nothing. The director made a few TV movies. That's it. Some guy (Leonardo Dicaprio) handed three guys, who have no experience with writing or making a movie, 100 million dollars to make a movie. What happened?!?! This film was incredibly dumb and that's needless to say, but this movie is almost beat for beat Batman Begins. It's so obvious that that's what was going on, but the film took itself seriously enough to where it rode that fine line of "so bad it's great."

The movie starts with voice-over narration and the film never returns to it. The film has action scenes that look like modern day Iraq, but people have bows and arrows and machine gun arrow guns. It was the dumbest thing ever. The costumes are just a joke. Robin Hood is like wearing a hoodie that the director got at a Goodwill. His girlfriend in the film is dressed like a hooker and she looks all sexy in a point in time that could be compared to the Great Depression. Ben Mendelsohn is wearing a light blue leather trench coat?? Everyone but our main characters are like covered in dirt and look disgusting. But Taron Egerton (Robin Hood) looks clean and his hair is gelled, he has a trimmed beard. It looks like he just walked off the set of Kingsman.

The performances were almost all terrible. Taron Egerton is miscast. His girlfriend is one of the worst actresses I've seen in a while. Ben Mendelsohn is back as ANOTHER villain and he is so over-the-top, that it was comical. Jamie Foxx is wasted and is also hilarious.

This is one of those movies where dumb people will sit through and go "Oh that's so badass." This movie has dumb slow-motion "badass" shots that are just so bad. The visual effects are terrible. Even the action scenes are so dull. This movie also attempted humor and I was the only one laughing (for the wrong reasons). The theater was like a funeral. Nobody seemed to like it.

This film is the equivalent of a Saturday morning cartoon show where everything is cheesy and clique and that's how I watched this film (as a joke). The movie just ends too. Almost like they ran out of budget. Then it ends in sequel bait that had be laughing until the credits.

The Robin Hood story works better as a concept, but out into a film, it has proven time and time again to not work.

Rating: Let It Burn

-Nolan