Robin Hood

After fighting alongside King Richard the Lionhearted (Danny Huston) on the battlefields of France in the early 12th century and returning to England pretending to be Sir Robert Loxley (Douglas Hodge) with his trusted men (Kevin Durand and Scott Grimes) in Ridley Scott's creative, engaging, action-packed, well-written, well-paced, star-studded (Matthew Macfadyen, Mark Addy, Eileen Atkins, and Simon McBurney) film that chronicles the back story in which greedy, childish King John (Oscar Isaac) proclaimed him an outlaw, archer Robin Longstride ends up falling in love with the headstrong, free-spirited widow Lady Marian (Cate Blanchett) in Nottingham upon returning a sword to her blind father (Max von Sydow) and then fights with other Englishmen (William Hurt, et al.) to take on a marauding, double-crossing Frenchman (Mark Strong) as he leads a full-scale attack when King Phillip and his French army arrive by sea.
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