2010 · action · adventure · history
Robin Hood
Directed by Ridley Scott2h 20m2010
When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and King John's henchman, Godfrey.
Our read: Robin Hood (2010) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · adventure · history entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / adventure, grounded in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- epic-stakes
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