jcbinok

I'll give Robin Hood credit for using physical stunts rather than CGI (if that was even a thing back in 1991).

My biggest criticism is that the film is just way too long at 2.5 hours. It took me three sittings to get thru it. Not that it was boring; there are lots of interesting moments, camera angles and plot points. There is a training sequence that a lesser movie would've left out, explaining how a bunch of townspeople legitimately became a fighting force in Sherwood Forest.

But, once the swashbuckling began, it got a bit ridiculous. Ex: A heavy-set woman who just gave birth a few days earlier swings from a rope between trees? Give me a break. 0% chance she could even hold up her own body weight by the arms let alone do so with centrifugal force pulling at her. And, the massive barrels of gunpowder that Morgan Freeman makes...Huh?

Funniest moment is when Costner looks thru Freeman's telescope and thinks the far-off soldiers are upon them. He starts swinging his sword.