The Last of Robin Hood
Samuel Goldwyn Films | Release Date: August 29, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
13
Negative:
6
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekAug 26, 2014
It's Kline who anchors the movie, swan-diving into Flynn's complexities without making excuses for him. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperSep 5, 2014
It lands just this side of camp, with a perfectly cast Kevin Kline hamming it up as the aging bounder Flynn, and Susan Sarandon really hamming it up. Read full review
75
New York PostLou LumenickAug 29, 2014
Dashing, handsome and self-deprecating, Kevin Kline was born to play Errol Flynn. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinAug 31, 2014
The film is too wan and distanced to sweep you up, but it holds you. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierAug 28, 2014
Kline sinks his old smoothie teeth into the part of Flynn, but is careful not to draw blood too easily. The man’s pathetic nature, after all, doesn’t spring from his movies. (Flynn worked right up to his death, in 1959.) It’s deeper than that, but also more shallow. Walking that knife’s edge is a trick. Kline finds exactly the right path. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisSep 5, 2014
This is a film that starts out promisingly and finishes with an effective epilogue. In between, there are some interesting bits - including a scene in which Errol Flynn tries to snag a big-time role in "Lolita." But outlandish as that moment might sound, it's not. Everything here, in fact, is just a tad too respectful. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsSep 4, 2014
Kline took on Douglas Fairbanks in Richard Attenborough's "Chaplin" and Cole Porter in Irwin Winkler's "De-Lovely"; he's the go-to biopic ace for roles requiring some fizz, a certain droll elevation and hair parted and slicked-back just so. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeySep 4, 2014
Instead of a cautionary tale, they've looked at Flynn's life through rose-colored glasses. Read full review
50
The New YorkerAnthony LaneSep 1, 2014
The Last of Robin Hood, written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, is often pallid and thin. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyAug 28, 2014
Writers and directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland have crafted a solid script... Holding the enterprise back, however, is a terribly restrained directorial approach and academic visual style that prevent the lubricious story from truly coming to life. Read full review
50
VarietyPeter DebrugeAug 28, 2014
The script represents a too-tame middle ground, which gives the unfortunate impression that perhaps the filmmakers want us to empathize with this icky romance. Read full review
50
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldAug 28, 2014
The story comes to feel mild (and incomplete) in its tempered nostalgia. Read full review
50
The DissolveMike D'AngeloAug 28, 2014
Directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland (The Fluffer, Quinceañera) do their best to avoid sensationalism, but age difference and statutory rape are the only factors that make the story remotely interesting. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubVadim RizovAug 27, 2014
On the sliding scale of low expectations associated with the “I (may or may not have) slept with a famous person” biopic genre, Robin Hood is more smoothly professional and tolerable than the lowly likes of "My Week With Marilyn" or the JFK-adultery-soap opera "An American Affair." Read full review
42
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallSep 4, 2014
The movie veers between disapproval, farce and something uncomfortably close to envy, with a trio of game performances barely holding things together. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzSep 4, 2014
Kevin Kline makes a terrific Errol Flynn. He just picked the wrong movie to prove it. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTy BurrSep 4, 2014
The Last of Robin Hood plays like a laboratory control experiment gone wrong: What would happen if you made a movie with a great cast and terrible everything else? Read full review
38
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreAug 27, 2014
The entire affair feels malnourished, under-rehearsed and starved of energy. Read full review
37
Washington PostStephanie MerrySep 4, 2014
Ultimately the movie feels like an empty exercise. Sure, it’s a cautionary tale about the pitfalls of fame. But when the one figure most worthy of our sympathy is nothing more than a beautiful blonde robot, what’s the point? Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleLouis BlackSep 3, 2014
This film slips and sloshes around in such ways that you really can't figure out its take on the unfolding and ill-fated story. Read full review
25
Portland OregonianMarc MohanSep 5, 2014
The period details are unconvincing, the cinematography is flat, and the performances are surprisingly one note considering the talent involved. Read full review
12
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzAug 29, 2014
The problem — and wow, it's a big one — is that none of these actors have material firm enough to shape into a bona fide performance. Read full review
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