The darkest period of the British Middle Ages. Know, headed by Prince John Landless remaining to look after the procedure in the country, holding simple peasants in a tight rein, squeezing out every last drop them by force of arms, and holding them in check. Only one man dared to challenge the tyranny, leading a small group of outcasts.
The people know it as Robin Hood. Robin of Locksley has returned to England from the Crusades. Bleak was his return to the country, which he did not recognize. Once the birthplace of freedom, she became the preserve of the oppressors, the Normans, where anyone who dared raise his head, he immediately lost it on the block or detect a loop in it. Even the Saxon know not been free from harassment: Robin's father, Lord Loxley, died, and all his possessions usurped the Sheriff of Nottingham, announcing that Robin fell in battle.
Discouraged by such trafficking, Robin tried to go to Lincoln to ask for help from his cousin, Sir Godwin. You will find in it no Lincoln green, not to mention the eye-popping Technicolor of Errol Flynn's ensemble; no battle on the extension with Little John; no toxophilism challenges; no slamming portcullises or disappear to Sherwood Forest; no Norman knight twisting his lip and requesting blood.
For sure, for the principal half-hour or so we are welcome to ponder whether Crowe is "Robin Hood" by any means. He is acquainted with us as one Robin Longstride, healthy bowman of an English armed force returning through France following 10 years' hard trudge in the Holy Land. Asked by his lord, Richard the Lionheart, for a genuine perspective of the campaign, Robin offers it to him straight: they killed numerous honest Muslims. Excessively legit — the lord demonstrates to a greater degree a Lyin' Heart by applauding him in the stocks.
Yet, a possibility for reclamation takes after when, on the demise of Richard, Robin and three of his not really happy men interfere with a snare, and figure out how to save the late lord's crown, now in transit to Richard's beneficiary in London.
Too awful it's his touchy, debauched sibling John. Another cheapie indie cash-in of a Hollywood blockbuster, this time around the Guy Ritchie film which was inself pretty diabolical, it has to be said.
This time around the actor who plays Robin brings no charisma to the role at all, while most of the screen time is given over to the gurning bad guys, including a Sheriff of Nottingham who wanders around naked unfortunately for the viewer for long scretches.
The fight scenes are among the worst I've seen recently - so slow and stilted - while the anachronisms keep on coming including Marian wearing a corset beneath her clothes. Amid the amateur cast members, poor old Brian Blessed has a cameo and Martyn Ford doesn't cover up his tattoos, even though they're certainly not of the period. The film opens by giving you the "historical" background. You can distract soldiers by throwing bags of money, disguise a character as a beggar, lure enemies into traps, distract them with whistles and so on.
By comparison, Robin Hood feels restrictive and dated. There are some distinctive touches, such as the Sherwood base of operations you return to after each mission, where you can train your merry men each of which has a simple combat stat and collect the resources you need in your adventures stones, apples, arrows and so on. And you can hand-pick who you take with you on each adventure, which gives you a greater feeling of freedom and control than you sometimes get in Commandos 2.
But somehow, the whole swords and arrows approach falls short of World War II scenarios or cowboy shoot-outs, and Robin Hood ends up being a minor if amusing chapter in the hardest of all genres. Following the astounding global success of Commandos in , German developer Spellbound had a brief period of success making unsubtle clones of the World War II puzzler in different historical settings.
And while this is perhaps the least successful of the Commandos clones, it's also the one that departs most clearly from the original blueprint, with its bows and arrows, mouse-driven swordplay and permanent base camp.
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