Any well-known character or story entering the public domain can be a blessing or a curse for a number of reasons, but it wouldn’t be a stretch of the imagination to suggest that perhaps the tales of Robin Hood and his merry men should be left alone for a while, especially given the events of 2018.
That was the year Taron Egerton headlined the widely-panned blockbuster reinvention that decided dark and gritty reboots were still worth attempting to weaponize, only for the disastrously doomed action epic to go down in the history books as one of the biggest box office bombs in history in terms of its budget-to-earnings ratio.
What you might not know is that it wasn’t even the only film focusing on Sherwood Forest’s noble defender to release that year, but it’s not as if Robin Hood: The Rebellion was given a substantial marketing push. However, streaming subscribers are now discovering that it is in fact a thing that exists, even if there’s a distinct chance they won’t care much for the outcome.
Per FlixPatrol, writer and director Nicholas Winter’s abject failure to paint the legendary hero’s mythos in any new shades has become one of the top-viewed features on the iTunes charts this week. Roundly savaged by critics and greeted with a shrug by audiences, The Rebellion resolutely fails to justify its existence.
Having suffered through Ridley Scott’s undercooked effort, Egerton’s notable folly, The Rebellion, and even The Siege of Robin Hood, four flicks in a dozen years is at least too many, so let’s just let the arrow enthusiast lay dormant for a while, shall we?