 I didn't want much from this film. I just wanted somewhat of a decent story with some cool shots of bow and arrow action and that's it. Well, that the film delivered, let's find out. My name is Brandon Keith-Avery and this is just my opinion. Hey, what's going on guys? Thank you so much for tuning into my Epin slash review for Robin Hood. I really do appreciate him. Now I'm serious with what I said in my intro. This film right here is directed by someone I've never heard of before by the name of Otto Badhurst or Badhurst. We look at his filmography. He does not have any experience other than a few TV directing jobs and some couple of short stares. So this is his first full length feature and to be honest with you, excuse me, it shows. Now the first thing about this film, well, let me just go ahead and say this. I didn't enjoy this movie. It wasn't horrible. It wasn't terrible. It wasn't like a dumpster fire like some people are describing it. I believe last time I checked it had like a 15% on rotten tomatoes. So it just wasn't just trash, but I didn't enjoy it either. I'm not going to recommend this film. Well, why is that Brandon? Well, first of all, most people know the story of Robin Hood. It takes place in the 16th century and you know, he's he's an outlaw. He's a vigilante. He robs from the rich and steals from the poor. There's been many, many iterations of Robin Hood over the past 100 years. And this is the latest incarnation of it. But the film assumes that you already know the story of Robin Hood and like what the description I just gave you, that's pretty much all I know. But it decides to skip over that whole narration or that whole plot synopsis as they're narrating and just leaves it up to you to figure out everything. I mean, it's pretty lazy. It comes on just like, you know, hey, if you know the story of Robin Hood, just forget it because we're going to tell you a new story. But we're not going to tell you the story. You're just going to have to kind of figure it out for yourself. I'm like, OK, I kind of wish you would have reminded me of the story of Robin Hood, maybe give me a little backstory that I've never heard before, especially since the last Robin Hood film that was directed by really Scott that came out in 2010, which I believe starred, what's his name, Russell Crowe. You know, the guy that we all know from from Gladiator. I'm not going to look that up or whatever. But that film wasn't that good. It didn't do well financially. It wasn't, you know, received well critically. It just was not a great film. So I mean, eight years later, you're making another Robin Hood film. And you're assuming that everybody in the world or this country in the states, you know, just in love with the with the IP. That's just a big mistake right there. And initially just kind of clocked me out. My next graph about this film was the editing. While the cinematography and all that was is fine. And I like the look and the feel of the film. It clocked me in and out with the editing sometimes, because when there were some hand to hand fights up close, I like the camera to be pulled back just a little bit so I can actually see what's going on and comprehend the choreography. I was not able to do that in this film right here. Oh, also there was a love story between, of course, Robin Hood, Robin of Loxley and made Marion, who pretty much just goes by Marion in this movie as well. That love is not earned either. I mean, we just don't know anything about the relationship. We're just supposed to assume that they're in love. And again, this is this film is just lazy, you know, assuming that you know all the material from the past. And that's just something that I did not like. My biggest gripe about this whole movie comes down to the score and to the soundtrack. I love a good score. I love a good soundtrack. If it's used properly. And I've never in my entire life seen a misuse of music composition in the film ever like this before. It's times to where you're supposed to be sad and it's supposed to be a dramatic scene and you suppose to feel all the emotions on the character on screen. They have the completely wrong tone of music like we're about to go on a battle. I'm like, no, this is a sad scene, a daunting scene. This is not music to where, you know, this is a charge on the front line in the middle of a war in an open field or something like that. It doesn't make any sense. So just imagine like any type of material that you like. And, you know, they're like a training montage. You know, they're getting ready to go on a battle. You know, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom. As Batman is putting on his clothes. Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom. Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom. I mean, it's that type of music is supposed to get you pumped. They're playing this type of music when people are dying and crying and suffering and in pain and can't pee straight and they have no food to eat. I'm just like, what is going on here? Like, this is just weird. It was an experience that I've never had before. So now let's go over to some of the actors. Okay, Taryn Edgerton, who was in the sequence of the movie, I like those. I like part two as well. Not as much as part one, but I liked it. He's fine in this movie. He's not great. He's not horrible, but Jamie Foxx, I don't know what the hell the director was thinking when they had Jamie Foxx in this movie. Or I blame all this on the directing. Jamie Foxx played like three different characters in this movie. Some type of personality disorder. I thought he was related to James McAvoy in the movie that's about to come out. Glass and all that good stuff. I don't understand where it's coming from. I think that was trying to portray Jamie Foxx as like a more or they have some moreish content in here which was a little interesting and weird on top of them. But Jamie Foxx, it's like, I was actually thinking this when I was watching the movie. That the director took Jamie Foxx over here and then took Taryn Edgerton over here. And when he told Jamie Foxx, okay, hey Jamie, we're gonna, he described the scene to Jamie. This is a one out the scene. This is your lines of dialogue when I say action, go I want you to get it, man, you know, use your stuff. But then went over to Taryn Edgerton and told him a completely different story. Like, okay, hey man, right now they're seeing right here, you're in space. Okay, and you're trying to find milk for your dogs. Okay, because if you don't find milk for your dogs, they're not gonna burp dogs, they're gonna burp cats. And that's weird, especially in space. Just stupid random stuff. And then decided to put these two actors together and play out a scene. And then it's like not magic. I'm like, are y'all talking to each other? It just doesn't make sense. Imagine if somebody comes up to you and be like, hey, you know what, hey, what did you do yesterday? And they reply back like, I didn't like it. You know, when I bit into it, it was hard. I don't think the customers are gonna like this sample that we created for them. No man, I asked what you did last night. Yeah, you know, I looked up in the sky and there was a rainbow. And I was like, okay, if there was a rainbow, it's not gonna last there forever. It's gonna sometimes come down. And then they replied like, oh, for real? Yeah, when I got that red curtain there, Ross or whatever, I came home and picked it up. I mean, it just doesn't make any sense. It doesn't match. And that's exactly what these two characters was going through. And then like, when they introduced Jamie Foxx, they introduced him as somebody that was extremely vulnerable in a timid position. And then the next time you see it, he turns into some superhero with motivation that just came out of nowhere. And I'm just sitting here just like flabbergasted, like I don't know what the hell is going on. I mean, just, I didn't like the way he talked. Just like, dude, calm down. Like it is not this serious. It was like, or just give me another example of some dialogue right here. Just like, okay, hey man, you know, we gotta have dinner tonight. I heard you was preparing, you know, what are you gonna prepare? How are you gonna do it? I gotta go to the store and get some hot dogs. Okay, why do you need to get some hot dogs? Because we already got the hot dog buns and we need some hot dogs to go with the hot dog buns. Okay, what else is gonna go with the hot dog buns? We're gonna get some chips, laze, and Doritos, yeah. God damn it, I almost, shit. Damn that throat jumped out of my mouth down there. Exactly, it just doesn't make any sense and that's what Jamie Foxx's character is doing in here as little John and it just didn't make any sense to me. As far as all the characters are concerned, I didn't care about them at all, whether they lived or survived. It just really didn't matter to me. It really just felt like there was no stakes in the whole movie. Now, one thing I will kind of say is I did kind of like the training montages with the bow and arrow and things like that. That was pretty cool, pretty nifty, the way they did that, you know, I did like it. It was entertaining, but at the same time, it was unearned. It just came out of nowhere. There was no buildup to it. You know, I did not see Taryn Edgerton as Robin Hood in a fallen, broken place and, you know, he needed some type of motivational uplift of empowerment to make him go on to the next job. And then when little John and Robin Hood are completing this job, there's no plan of action. I mean, it just cuts over in the middle of the action scene and I don't know the depth of it. I don't know how hard or difficult this job was. There was, like I said, there was no plan in the beginning, like, okay, there's gonna be 50 men or 100 men here. We have to hit it at this point and this time here. And if we miss this point right here, we're gonna miss our window and da-da-da-da-da. There was none of that. It was just action, action, action. I mean, imagine a movie that you like. You think it's okay. You like all the action scenes in it. And so when you rewatch it at home, you just kind of fast forward to all the good parts. That's kind of how this movie was. It was just nothing but the good parts, but the good parts had no weight to it because there was just no buildup. I mean, another way I can describe it is just like all the cut scenes in a video game or something like that, edited together. Now, kind of towards the end, the third act things did kind of pick up a little bit and, you know, it got better. But overall, this was a huge disappointment in a film that I will not recommend to anyone. Even though there were a few little elements here and there that I enjoyed. If I had to rate Robin Hood out of a one out of 10, I would give this film a five out of 10. Yes, a five out of 10. But guys, that is just my opinion, okay? I mean, you may like the film, I didn't, okay? Do you wanna see it or have you already seen it? Have I turned you on? Have I turned you off? Do you agree with me or do you disagree with me? Let me know down in the comment section below. Let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing. If you liked this video, go ahead and give it a thumbs up. If you don't, that's fine. But you're still subscribed on my channel. 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