Reviews

• Scott has an eye -- and it's a very good one -- for sieges of castles, charging horsemen, hand-to-hand combat, glistening swords arcing through the air and deadly arrows whistling toward helpless targets.

  Kirk Honeycutt - The Hollywood Reporter
  
  27 April 2013

• What this Robin Hood lacks in fun it makes up for in epic sweep.

  Peter Travers - Rolling Stone
  
  27 April 2013

• Scott removed the adventure aspect, and some of the movie's passion was lost, too, like a dolphin caught in a tuna net. Perhaps it's for that reason that a movie that starts out with the potential to be great somehow falls short, and what seems as if it's going to be a revelation ends up, instead, simply a worthwhile, reasonably interesting variation on an old theme.

  Mick LaSalle - The San Francisco Chronicle
  
  27 April 2013

• This Robin Hood is mostly a smart, muscular entertainment; it doesn't breathe new life into a genre as did “Gladiator,'' Scott's first pairing with Russell Crowe, but it's a brawny reimagining of a beloved old myth, a period popcorn movie turned out with professionalism and gusto.

  Ty Burr - The Boston Globe
  
  27 April 2013

• Cate Blanchett brings little but an arch toughness to the role of Marion, and, in a highly improbably climactic scene, proves herself a veritable knight. Crowe and Blanchett share a perfunctory romance, with few sparks.

  Claudia Puig - USA Today
  
  27 April 2013