If you’re expecting Russell Crowe, in all of his ham-fisted glory, to slice through a length of curtain with a rapier and make like Tarzan through a candle-fraught plywood castle, then you might be more than a little sad. Still other tragic moments abound in the tradition of Lincoln green spandex: Alan Rickman is no longer the Sherriff of Nottingham. The Merry Men don’t have any musical numbers. There’s even a slightly tragic overlap of William Wallace-ness.Yet where the movie fails to hold up to the exacting demands of a woodland bandit's largesse—oft-personified in the creed 'steal from the rich n' give to the poor'—this update remains more than faithful in spirit.
