The Legend You Know. The Story You Don’t.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
Cast |
Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx, Ben Mendelsohn, Eve Hewson, Jamie Dornan, Tim Minchin, Paul Anderson, F. Murray Abraham |
Director |
Otto Bathurst |
Screenplay | Ben Chandler, David James Kelly, |
Music | Joseph Trapanese |
Cinematography | George Steel |
Editing | Chris Barwell, Joe Hutshing |
Soundtrack | Available |
Made in | 2018 |
Produced by | Summit Entertainment, Appian Way, Safehouse Pictures, Thunder Road Pictures, Pixoloid Studios |
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Genre | Action adventure |
Language | The material contains infrequent low impact use of appropriate language that is used within a context of expressing anger or frustration. |
Nudity | None |
Sex | None |
Violence | The material contains frequent moderate impact physical and emotional violence. The majority of the physical violence in the film consists of “bow and arrow” violence that is actual and implied at times with minimal bloodletting. The film also contains a single minor scene of a man’s hand being dismembered without bloodletting. |
Prejudice | None |
Blasphemy | None |
Drug abuse | None |
Comments | The film contains complex and mature themes of thievery, wealth inequality, medieval times, the defiance of a young man who fights against the ills of social injustice driven by love and willpower, social imbalance, rich versus poor, murder and deception. The scene of a man’s hand being dismembered (which is brief and without any bloodletting) might be threatening, disturbing or harmful to viewers under the age of 13 or cause psychological harm. The positive messages of fighting for social justice, good prevailing over as well as love and companionship mitigates against a higher impact. |
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PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned | Rated PG-13 for extended sequences of violence and action, and some suggestive references |
Runtime | 116 |
USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ. |
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Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
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Tense Family Scenes |
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Topics to talk about |
Suggested age limit 13 + |
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Scale (Max) | 20 | |
What the Critics say | ||
Cape Argus / The Star Michael O'Sullivan Modern makeover mars beloved classic. | 2 | |
24.com Herman Eloff All-in-all, when you finally walk out of the cinema you simply can’t help but feel like you got robbed by Hood. | 5 | |
Metacritic.com 27 critics | 6 | |
Rottentomatoes critics 140 critics | 7 | |
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Robin Hood robs from rich source material, but is ultimately just another poor attempt to needlessly gussy up a classic tale with amped-up action and modern special effects. | 3 | |
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics | 9 | |
CommonSenseMedia Jeffrey M. Anderson Sloppy, violent adventure does little for classic legend. | 5 | |
What the People say | ||
Metacritic.com users 67 users | 7 | |
Rottentomatoes users 2108 users | 10 | |
IMDB 11860 Netizens | 11 | |
The Movie DB Community | 12 | |
Average .. 35% | 7 |