I eat my words. My brother told me that I would regret not seeing this in theatre.....dang.
Crowe plays Robin Longstride, a man who isn't sure of his beginnings that decides to follow through with a dead man's last request of uniting his father and sword. The man ends up being Robin of Loxly and Longstride quickly fills (impersonates) his role as husband to Marion (Blanchett) and son to Sir Walter Loxly (von Sydow) so that they can keep their land and have the leader they deserve. Okay at first I was like, "Damn, not even an evening of grieving?!". Then Marion explains that her husband has been gone for years and that it was a marriage of convenience and they were only together for a few weeks. It was different time period and with war, keeping lay of the land was the priority.
King Richard Lionheart (Huston) dies and then his younger brother, Prince John, becomes the new King Of England and starts by trusting dark people and making bad decisions. The French are let into the monarchy set up for an easy take-over, the young prince retires the King's most trusted advisor William Marshall (Hurt), and Robin of Nottingham with his Merry Men start fighting back.
Bottom line this was a great action movie. We got the story that we had never seen before rather than the guy in the triangle green hat steeling bags of coin from the Sheriff. Crowe was well cast, and Scott directed a seen before movie into an original.
Only thing left to do now is find my niche to become a archer assassin.
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