Film Review – The Last of Robin Hood

“The Last of Robin Hood” is dedicated to Beverly Aadland, the underage girl who took part in a sexual relationship with 50-year-old Errol Flynn over the last two years of his life. Perhaps this is why the production takes it so easy on the young woman, electing to transfer motivation to others while romanticizing a union that’s already impossible to rationalize. In a stronger film, this provocative approach might conjure a riveting display of passion and violation, but in the hands of writer/directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland (“Quinceanera”), “The Last of Robin Hood” is transformed into a melodrama, and one that’s suspiciously careful with the sordid details of the plot. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com