Robin Hood
Universal Pictures | Release Date: May 14, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
53
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 40 Critic Reviews
Positive:
19
Mixed:
15
Negative:
6
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Every era gets the Robin Hood it needs…Now director Ridley Scott and writer Brian Helgeland have given us an intelligent, layered story suited to our grim, patience-trying times. Read full review
88
New York PostLou Lumenick
Head and shoulders above the sort of lightheaded epics Hollywood typically offers during the summer season. Read full review
80
Boxoffice MagazinePete Hammond
The entire cast is superb. Crowe's an ideal Robin Hood-born to play the role-he's fully in command but human to the core. He owns it. Read full review
80
EmpireDan Jolin
Grown-up but not too serious; action-packed but not juvenile… Not only is this the mullet-free Robin Hood movie we’ve been waiting decades for, it’s also Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe at their most entertaining since Gladiator. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
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. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTy Burr
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. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
What strikes me about the new Robin Hood, directed by Ridley Scott, is how its preoccupations and sensibilities lie almost precisely halfway between the derring-do of the 1938 film and the harsh revisionism of the '70s edition Read full review
75
Orlando SentinelRoger Moore
A dark and brawny version of the Robin Hood legend that anchors itself in English history and loses some of the merriment in the process. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Scott's reimagining of the legend of Robin Hood has more heft than it does humor, more soulful brooding than snappy thrust-and-parry retorts. Read full review
75
Rolling StonePeter Travers
What this Robin Hood lacks in fun it makes up for in epic sweep. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
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. Read full review
75
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike Scott
Still, it's not the iconic, be-all-end-all that Scott was certainly hoping for. Read full review
70
VarietyJustin Chang
Impressively made and serious-minded to a fault, this physically imposing picture brings abundant political-historical dimensions to its epic canvas, yet often seems devoted to stifling whatever pleasure audiences may have derived from the popular legend. Read full review
70
Arizona RepublicBill Goodykoontz
Scott's epic - and it's hard to think of anything this big, this elaborate and, no doubt, this expensive as anything but - is very much an origination story, a prequel, if you will. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
As in so many summer behemoths, the real stars are the projectiles--in this case, arrows with their own point-of-view shots, zipping through the air and finding their targets with pinpoint accuracy. Read full review
70
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
Despite its abundant flaws and historical howlers and generally dimwitted tone, Robin Hood is a surprisingly enjoyable work of popcorn cinema, if you're willing to take it on its own terms. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Scott’s is the story of how Robin Longstride (and, no, that’s not a name made up by Mel Brooks), an archer in Richard the Lionheart's last Crusade, became Robin of the Hood, the wily defender of the overtaxed people of Nottingham. Read full review
63
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe Williams
A lot of care went into crafting the handsome production but not enough into making the handsome hero come alive. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
If this truly is Ridley Scott's preferred cut, he has proven unable to justify the existence of yet another Robin Hood film. Read full review
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