Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves

Buy This Item Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves by Warner Home Video  Available from Amazon  $14.99  on 9-22-2008     Film buffs may remember the tangled tale of competing Robin Hood projects in 1991. Kevin Costner, riding high from his Oscar wins for <I>Dances with Wolves</I>, had his pick of projects at the time, and he juggled his interest in parallel Hood films that were under development at different studios. Costner chose <I>Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves</I>, of course, directed by his friend Kevin Reynolds, while the other production (the one described here), attached to veteran British director John Irvin (<I>The Dogs of War</I>), ended up on cable television with another Yank, Patrick Bergin, in the lead. Comparisons were inevitable, even though the two films were very different from one another. A little harder edged and more surprising than Reynolds's work, the Irvin-Bergin movie made all that medieval heroism seem more an effort of the heart than previous versions. Roughing things up a bit is Uma Thurman as a bratty Maid Marion, not quite the traditional damsel in distress of yesteryear. Irvin keeps the adventure quotient up, but this is simply a darker, grittier variation on the old tale. With Jürgen Prochnow, Jeroen Krabbé, and Conrad Asquith. <I>--Tom Keogh</I> Reader Reviews I love this movie, but I thought it was so lame, in this version, that I had to flip the disk over to finish the thing! Was there really that much information that you couldn't have but the whole movie on one side of the disk? Lame.

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