By Lee Pfeiffer
Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe have collaborated once again for
Robin Hood, the latest in a seemingly endless number of attempts to keep the legendary hero a contemporary favorite. In large part, Robin Hood films have been successful. I've always liked Richard Lester's
Robin and Marian as well as Kevin Costner's weird but fun attempt to play the role in the 1990s. Scott's film looks gritty and tough, though I hope he doesn't mar the action sequences, as he did in
Gladiator, by employing today's omnipresent herky-jerky hand-held camera techniques. To view the trailer
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