by Phillip Erlewine
synopsis
This film is a '90s version of the classic Robin Hood story, with Kevin Costner starring as the good-guy thief. Costner is joined in his efforts against the murdering Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Rickman) by Morgan Freeman who plays a philosophizing Moor, and by Nick Brimble, who plays Little John (anything but little). After Robin barely survives a watery skirmish with Little John, the two become allies and Robin joins forces with Little John's band of robber thieves to overcome the evils of the dastardly Nottingham sheriff.
characteristics
- Heroic Mission
- Adrenaline Rush
- Knights And Ladies
- Righting The Wronged
- For Love Of Country
- Risk
- Jeopardy
- Fighting The System
- Danger
- Romance
- Robber
- Against-all-odds
- Romantic
- Swashbuckler
- Thief
