If I had a ten cent coin for every person who said that Russell Crowe is too old to play Robin Hood, I’d be passably well off by now No seriously. When word got out that Ridley Scott was directing a movie based on the Robin Hood legend and that his main lead was Russell Crowe, I bet a lot of people would have gone: wait a minute. That burly, hot tempered man? You gotta be kidding me.

But I love Russell Crowe and even if he’d acted in something else not related to the beautiful legend of Robin Hood, I’d still pay for my admissions ticket to see my hero in all his glory in the big screen.

I digress, however, so let’s move on. How was the movie? I enjoyed it. Seriously. It flouts old English history, it gets a little camp and unbelievable sometimes, but it was utterly enjoyable. I told SmartDode this and I will say it again here: I would totally not mind if someone asked me to go watch it again in the cinema.

The acting was good – Russell Crowe only had to reprise his macho-ness from Gladiator, Cate Blanchett was uber cute as Marian, and the rest of the cast held their own to make the 2-hour movie watchable.

And after all that, through other bloated, nonsensical movies with nonexistent plotlines that just rely on animation, when you’re sitting through a movie that goes back to the theatre styles of yore, who could ask for more?