<![CDATA[This could have been an excellent version, but dear God Kevin Costner just makes me cringe. He's so awful in it and ever]]>Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

jeff-90 — 11 years ago(March 08, 2015 08:30 PM)

This could have been an excellent version, but dear God Kevin Costner just makes me cringe. He's so awful in it and everyone else is so good it just amplifies what a total stiff he is. Also suffers from a tone problem, you can't alternate between brutal violence and then goofy comedic lines, just doesn't work. So when all is said and done it's your basic 6/10 among all films, but below average compared to films I actually pay to watch.

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Nick Brimble as Little John looked like a nice troll in a children's program with that silly smile. He was worst.

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The third highest grossing film of 1991, yet you claim (
Costner)barely even registers
and
It wasn't really a beloved film
LOL! Not just a fuzzy navel, but a fuzzy head as well! People loved the movie and Kevin Costner in the title role. Money does talk.

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Costner is certainly the weakest link. He doesn't have to be Errol Flynn, but Robin Hood is a role that requires a certain degree of charisma, zest, and sexual appeal that Costner just doesn't bring. He barely even registers. I feel like they were aiming for the same balance of blustering villainy and laconic heroism that had becomes popular after
Batman
and
Dick Tracy
, but the central character just wasn't thought through very carefully this time. Oddly enough I think the movie works in spite of him, and I didn't have as much of a problem with the tonal shifts as you did. It's not really a film made for a family audience and I admire the attempt to make a more authentically grimy medieval Robin Hood.
that has captured people's imagination the way this one did in the Summer of '91.
I think that's overstating it. It was a box office hit, but it didn't leave much of a cultural imprint. The reviews were mixed, it even received some Golden Raspberry awards. It wasn't really a beloved film and it still isn't - just a respectable summer entertainment.

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Costner belongs in a Robin Hood film about as much as Alan Rickman does in a baseball movie, but nearly a quarter of a century later people are still talking about
Prince of Thieves
and Hollywood has yet to make a Robin Hood film since that has captured people's imagination the way this one did in the Summer of '91.

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