I got one major problem with this review.
Tag: gladiator
Wait, didn’t this happen in Gladiator?
From the Big Hollywood review of Robin Hood:
Things open on a promising note. The date is 1199 and Robin (Crowe) is an archer for King Richard who is pillaging his way through France on his way back to England after the Crusades. Nothing happens you haven’t seen a hundred times before in one of these Medieval romps, but Scott knows how to structure, shoot and edit big action set-pieces like few others so the ole’ castle storm is exciting. 140 minutes later, however, you discover the hard way that this is where it all peaked.
Yes. That is precisely what happened in Gladiator
Then you spend the rest of the movie waiting for it to come back. Hell, Scott even used Russell Crowe again, the lazy SOB.
This would have worked, before the Internet.
As a method for sucking in people to watch romantic comedies, that is. Heck, make the first five or fifteen minutes cool enough and you can get people to forgive you the remainder :coughcoughcoughGladiator
Some time after this clip was where things went wrong for Gladiator.
It was doing so well… and then they stopped showing us the war. I kept waiting for them to come back to it…