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Patrick Bergin, Uma Thurman, Jurgen Prochnow

Film buffs may remember the tangled tale of competing Robin Hood projects in 1991. Kevin Costner, riding high from his Oscar wins for Dances with Wolves, had his pick of projects at the time, a...( read more  read more... )nd he juggled his interest in parallel Hood films that were under development at different studios. Costner chose Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, of course, directed by his friend Kevin Reynolds, while the other production (the one described here), attached to veteran British director John Irvin (The Dogs of War), ended up on cable television with another Yank, Patrick Bergin, in the lead. Comparisons were inevitable, even though the two films were very different from one another. A little harder edged and more surprising than Reynolds's work, the Irvin-Bergin movie made all that medieval heroism seem more an effort of the heart than previous versions. Roughing things up a bit is Uma Thurman as a bratty Maid Marion, not quite the traditional damsel in distress of yesteryear. Irvin keeps the adventure quotient up, but this is simply a darker, grittier variation on the old tale. With Jürgen Prochnow, Jeroen Krabbé, and Conrad Asquith. --Tom Keogh

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Unrated, 104 min.

Directed by: John Irvin

Release Date: May 13, 1991

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DVD Release Date: May 11, 2004

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  • garyX
    May 11, 2007
    garyX
    Released at the same time as Prince Of Thieves, it lacks Costner's dubious star presence, Bryan Adams' nauseating ballad and much of the Hollywood gloss of it's contemporary. And is all the better for it. But it's still not that great.
  • goofygirl4life1981
    October 6, 2009
    goofygirl4life1981
    this was a great movie
  • kinley3
    August 11, 2009
    kinley3
    there will be no better Robin then Michael Praed from Robin of Sherwood ( 1983 )
  • charlenebonnici86
    June 19, 2009
    charlenebonnici86
    The adventure. The romance. The legend.
  • malacaynomuerto
    January 28, 2009
    malacaynomuerto
    no fue muy conocida pero tampoco es que este mal al contrario la puesta es muy bonita, las actuaciones están bien solo que fue una producción modesta
  • pinkie99
    November 3, 2008
    pinkie99
    Sillier than the Kevin Costner version, no joke - plus, no Alan Rickman!
  • Ghw12158
    September 15, 2008
    Ghw12158
    just ok version of this there are better ones
  • bjvanden
    April 20, 2008
    bjvanden
    Ply'd his act well .
  • MangoChutChut
    January 20, 2008
    MangoChutChut
    I've never even heard of this version. Yuck.

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  • mattmartinez11
    August 24, 2007
    mattmartinez11
    I'm getting increasingly tired of people posting comments about movies they haven't seen in the Reviews section,—how the hell does "not interested" or "never heard of it" constitute a review?—so I thought I'd set a good example.

    I'd really like to see the full-length 2+ hour version of this. Unfortunately, only the 100-minute cut is available on DVD.
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