Review:
Robin Hood in the film is portrayed as a rich person, as his father owns a castle and is kind of the king of Loxley. He has rich clothing and an expensive medallion around his neck, which is worth, and awful lot for anyone who gets it.
The film starts with Robin Hood’s father writing a letter to his dear son ‘Robin Hood’. The sheriff of Nottingham then attacks him; the sheriff’s guards overwhelm him and kill him.
Then goes on to Robin in a dungeon; you gather that he has been captured fighting in the crusades. He succeeds in an escape attempt freeing him from the dungeon and two other people. One of the people being his old best friend, and is the person who is in love with Marion. The other is Morgan Freeman who persuades Robin to cut him free. When they get outside into the courtyard Robin’s friend gets shot by an archer on top of the castle wall. With his last words of life he gives Robin an engagement ring to give to maid Marion as he was in love with her. Costner and Freemen manage to hide in a small hut form the roaming guards, even finding a couple of juicy grapefruits to eat and satisfy their hunger.
It goes onto Robin coming home to see his father in Loxley crossing the sea in a sailing boat- a bit cheesy but believable. Entering the castle of his father he sees his own father hanging from the roof dead in a cage. Robin is upset and sees his fathers’ truest friend ‘Duncan’ calling Robin’s name obviously not dead. Robin angrily asks him why he didn’t fight off the guards for his father, but then seeing that the person he is shouting at has both of his eyes missing.
He buries his father in a grave outside slicing his hand with a knife and squeezing his hand to drip blood on his father’s grave, basically saying that he will get his father re-vengeance.
Robin sees a boy running from the sheriff’s dogs and their hounds as well. He clambers up a tree to get away from them. They are about to chop it down when robin comes along saying, “This tree is on my land, and therefore it belongs to me”. They try and fight him but un-succeeds, Robin even knocking the Sheriff of Nottingham’s cousin off his horse, and putting a blade to his throat. He lets him live sending him back to Nottingham giving him a message to the sheriff.
He then goes off to find maid Marion so he can give her the ring, and succeeds. With a little trouble though-entering the castle with no weapon and being attacked by maid Marion herself in full body armour, obviously not knowing that it was Robin who used to bully her as a child and burn her hair. He has a conversation outside with her, he gives her the ring and obviously she sobs. Freemen sees the Sheriffs guards riding towards them in the faint distance, Costner and Freemen ride off in the away form the guards- Robin taking Maid Marion’s horse.
They ride into Sherwood forest escaping from the guards with a couple of arrows in the backside of their horses. They manage to escape from the guards as the forest is meant to be haunted. As Alan Rickman’s cousin has once again failed to capture robin he puts a sword through him commenting on the good steal blade-obviously portraying that he is a very evil, horrible man.
Costner and freemen run into Robin’s brother, (Christian Slater) and the legend little john. Little John challenges Robin to a duel with sticks next to the waterfall. If Robin looses Little John takes his medallion, and if he wins he gets to carry on through Sherwood Forest. Robin starts of loosing getting a few bruises, but then comes back underneath little John as he comes up out of the water and hits him in the knackers. Luckily Little John can’t swim so Robin helps him to his feet for his medallion back.
He makes friends with Little John and his brother’s companions, but still his brother has intolerable cruelty towards him. You find out the reason later that it is because Slater thinks their father loved Robin more than him.
Robin and the crew attack a couple of squads from the sheriff and takes any gold they are carrying to give to the poor, this obviously gets the Sheriff angry.
The crew then build their own defending post in the forest made of wood.
Christian Slater attempts to throw a knife at Robin, but little John’s son (same child he saved when he was up the tree) shouts to robin, so robin turns round quickly and puts and arrow through Slater’s hand.
Robin then invites Maid Marion round to see their own home. For the girls you see the backside of Kevin Costner down near the waterfall, when she is trying to find him. The merry men have a party and Little John’s wife comes pregnant. Its a boy.