Robin Hood: Don't Let The Thieves Get You

Well, I must say, that was a colossal waste of time and money.

It started ponderous and melodramatic, and ended on a utopian note, with so many coincidences along the way that you might think the screenwriter was required to end the movie with Robin Hood and his merry men in the forest of Nottingham as outlaws.

Oh, wait.

By now, Russell Crowe is synonymous with Epic Heroism, but he came up small here. There simply wasn't much to do with the role. He simply had to be in the right place at the right time. Over and again.

Which reminds me: is England a large country? As best as I can tell from the movie, one thousand soldiers could conquer it, and it's possible to ride across the entire island in a day or two, with most villages in spitting distance of each other.

The movie from the very beginning screamed "Epic, epic, look at the epic." Unfortunately, it simply had the trappings of an epic, with all the story quality (and seemingly budget for extras) of a B movie.