Another One: A Robin Hood Movie Review

Did you know that when you type ‘Robin Hood’ into the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) search engine, seventy entries pop up? Seventy. Seven, zero. This year’s Robin Hood is the 70th of its’ name, but it actually does a few things different.

This is most definitely a very modern take on the legend, infused with the undeniable politics of the present day. This joint should’ve been called Eggsy Hood, because Bast bless Taron Egerton, but it seems like he’s always in some version of Kingsman. Aight, so boom: this iteration of Robin Hood is focused mostly on your boy Robin of Locksley and his understanding of class privilege (Robin Hood learns the power of allyhood!). We get all the follow through from previous iterations of Robin Hood lore, but now we get some more juicy details. We know Robin gets sent to war in the Arab nations on behalf of England to fight Muslims in the Crusades, been there and done that. Now we know it’s a conspiracy from on high because the Locksley family were cool with the poor people of Nottingham. We know that there’s been a Black guy added to the legend for some time, but now we know he’s a Moor who practices Islam working on halting the war engine in England. The legend of Robin Hood was always anti-establishment, and this movie goes hard in the paint on that front. Ben Mendelsohn’s Sheriff of Nottingham says at least three elitist quotes that I swear 45th said on Twitter in the last year. Also, when will Ben Mendelsohn play another character? This du…