Even a child can tell you the story of Lord Robin of Loxley. It’s possible that was the idea of it; a remake is meant to blow the watchers away with mostly the same story but something relatively different about it. And with already existing excellent remakes of Robin Hood, the audience was really expecting something vastly spectacular if not new to love the remake. The steal from the rich and give the poor movie took too much of the expectations and unfortunately could not give anything to the audience.

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Robin of the Hood’s arrow fell short since the first scene of the movie itself. While it is understood that it is the olden times, pray do tell why they speak modern English and why Robin, owner of his own estate dresses as a servant and loiters in his own stables randomly. While it opened rather tediously, the scenes that followed did not do much to make up for it. The script was poorly written and had the eye-rolling typicality to it that the crowd was not expecting. Yahya, the moor, portrayed by Jamir Foxx befriends Robin after he tries to save Yahya’s son. This engaging scene was then mortally spoilt when Yahya spoke accented Arabic but was somehow fluent in English. And if that wasn’t bad enough, clothes for people living during the age of the Crusades for some reason look like what a modern next door neighbor might wear. The movies reception really spoke for the audience’s opinion. Robin Hood made only $83 million against a budget of $100 million.

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The portrayal of the evil Sheriff of Nottingham (the epitome of bad in the movie) didn’t seem so much as evil as stupid. And when the intensity and seriousness towards the end of the movie is suddenly ruptured by a particular church party scene that cannot be differentiated from a depraved Las Vegas party really makes one wonder what happened to the days of good old script writing. Finally, when they were out of bad guys, making the least likely person turn evil seemed to be the only desperate thing that could promise a sequel.

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Fortunately for the movie, being an absolute no-brainer was the not worst aspect of it. Actor Taron Eagerton made a good Robin of the Hood, but unfortunately his good acting only more fervently shed light on the poor direction and scene follow-ups, the erratic pace of the movie and unnecessarily extended action scenes. Shooting arrows, two or three at a time, is all a piece of cake for Robin. But his amazing archery skills along with quick–thinking may have saved Robin in the movie, but unfortunately did nothing to save the movie itself. 

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