Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves
by Kevin Reynolds
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Actor: Alan Rickman, Christian Slater, Kevin Costner, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Morgan FreemanDirector: Kevin Reynolds
Brand: WARNER HOME VIDEO
Producer: Kevin Costner
Producer: David Nicksay
Producer: Gary Barber
Producer: James G. Robinson
Producer: John Watson
Writer: John Watson
Writer: Pen Densham
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 143 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1997-10-01
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- Academy AwardO winner* Kevin Costner triumphs as the legendary Sherwood Forest outlaw leader in this epic adventure bringing a 12th-century medieval world to spectacular screen life. Enhancing the sheer fun of this audience rouser are 10 added minutes of footage not seen in theatres, especially more of the juicy malevolence and sinister background of Robin Hood's archenemy, the Sheriff of Nottingh
DVD Reviews of Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves
DVD Review: Better with the mute button.
Summary: 4 Stars
I've avoided this film for years. It is surprisingly action-packed in a good way and the settings are appropriate. Alan Rickman's character of the Sheriff of Nottingham, George, is marvelous and with the deleted scenes, much more interesting than Robin Hood's. Morgan Freeman does a credible job which could have been expanded. I found muting Kostner each time he spoke to vastly improve the watching experience. It isn't so much his American accent in an English setting as the lack of emotional depth. He has none at all. He looks the part, can't act it, though. Pay extra for the deleted scenes as they are worth it.DVD Review: Never got the product or response from seller!!
Summary: 1 Stars
I was really looking forward to getting a DVD from this seller, it was one that I couldn't find in regular stores like Borders or Target (and believe me, I tried). I ordered the movie and they said it would take 12 to 17 business days, so I knew I'd have to wait, but when a month had gone by and I still hadn't received the DVD in the mail, I sent a really polite email to the seller to have them let me know the status. They never responded to my email, and I still have not received the DVD in the mail. If you're planning on buying anything through SummerTime26, you might want to look elsewhere (unless you like paying for nothing)DVD Review: Movie Bust
Summary: 1 Stars
Unfortunately, I gave this movie as a gift and the first half played successfully; then, we flipped the disk over to play the second half and it wouldn't play at all. DVD Review: Still love it!
Summary: 5 Stars
I remember when this movie came out. I went to watch it three times and that is really saying something coming from me. Well when I found this, I was like "Yea!!!!!!!!" Bought it and watched and LOVED all the new scenes that were originally deleted. It is the best Robin Hood even if several actors do not have English accents ;)DVD Review: This Robin Hood Misses The Target
Summary: 3 Stars
Were Alan Rickman, Morgan Freeman and Sean Connery not in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, I would have passed on both the original and extended DVDs. Despite the fine production design, great location cinematography and some now-classic lines, the film is at best a fun but forgettable two-star effort.
An uneven screenplay with jerrymandered plot devices (was 13th century England really that PC?), inconsistent direction, careless editing, and an American actor who plays Robin Hood like a Huntington Beach surfer visiting a medieval theme park, are the reasons I downgraded this version of the outlaw legend. IMO Errol Flynn's 1938 vigorous swashbuckler is superior to Kevin Costner's 1991 reluctant-hero epic in every way.
With one notable exception.
The third star is for Alan Rickman (better known nowadays as Hogwarts teacher Professor Snape). I understand the English actor was given carte-blanche to do what he wanted with his villain's role. Thank God, for he saved this picture by stealing it outright. His performance as the demented, manic and lecherous Sheriff of Nottingham is a comedic tour de force. Rickman schemes, roars, slithers and hisses -- and delivers some of the best lines in the script like a vulture picking over entrails to devour. To wit:
Sheriff of Nottingham: Wait a minute. Robin Hood steals money from my pocket, forcing me to hurt the public, and they love him for it?
[Scribe nods]
Sheriff of Nottingham: That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings. And call off Christmas.
Sheriff of Nottingham: [to a wench] You. My room. 10:30 tonight.
Sheriff of Nottingham: [to another wench] You. 10:45... And bring a friend.
I can guess why many of Rickman's scenes were cut from the theatrical release. It wasn't just for time or relevance; when he's on screen you don't see anyone else. He's that good.
Other actors deserve praise for breathing life into their stock characters. Morgan Freeman as Robin's loyal Islamic friend Azeem, the fierce yet dignified "painted man", is wonderful to watch and listen to -- but when isn't he? IMO Freeman is incapable of giving a bad performance. The same is true of several veteran British actors in the cast: Brian Blessed (Lord Locksley), Nick Brimble (Little John), Michael McShane (Friar Tuck) and Geraldine McEwan (the twisted Mortianna). I also bend my knee to the always majestic Sean Connery for an uncredited cameo.
I like Mary Elizabeth Mastroantonio's acting, but IMO her Lady Marian was undermined by the director's lack of focus. She is introduced as a knife-wielding Norman maid in men's clothing who is running her family's estate, but in the climactic fight scene she's running around and screaming like a helpless twit. Wha'? I also feel that Christian Slater was miscast as Will Scarlett. He comes off as a charmless whiner whose act you never quite buy. And while Slater vaguely resembles Costner, the two actors lack the requisite chemistry to be familial colleagues.
The bottom line: Pass on this one unless you're a hardcore Kevin Costner fan. (I like KC but not in this film.) Choose Errol Flynn's The Adventures of Robin Hood instead as the gem of this genre. But consider RHPOF for Alan Rickman's over-the-top performance as the evil sheriff. He will not disappoint.
Description of Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves
A reworking of the legend with a stand-out performance by Alan Rickman as the evil Sheriff of Nottingham. Academy Award Nominations: Best Song ("(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" by Bryan Adams and John Lange).Kevin Costner's lousy English accent is a small obstacle in this often exciting version of the Robin Hood fable. That aside, it's refreshing to have a preface to the old story in which we meet the robber hero of Sherwood Forest as a soldier in King Richard's Crusades, coming home to find his people under siege from the cruelties of the Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Rickman). After Robin and his community of outcasts and fighters take to the trees, director Kevin Reynolds (Fandango, 187) is on more familiar narrative ground, and he goes for the gusto with lots of original action (Robin shoots two arrows simultaneously from his bow in two directions). Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, as Marion, makes a convincing damsel in distress, and Morgan Freeman brings dignity to his role as Robin's Moor friend. Alan Rickman, however, gets the most attention for his scene-chewing role as the rotten sheriff, an almost campy performance that is highly entertaining but perhaps a little out of sorts with the rest of the film. --Tom Keogh
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