Review: THE EAGLE

               The Eagle is so much like an old school period piece that it feels almost new on how it goes about telling a story. It is the type of story that would have been told in the pre-CGI era when making things blow up was too expensive to have in every movie. The Eagle seems to be the type of story Ridley Scott would make if studio executives wouldn't interfere and inject CGI-steroids into his projects. The Eagle is a grounded down-to-earth movie that draws its strength from its simplicity.

 

Review: ROBIN HOOD

Ridley Scott’s new version of the Robin Hood story has a little bit of Gladiator, a little bit of Kingdom of Heaven, a little bit of Saving Private Ryan, a little bit of Elizabeth, a little bit from The Patriot and a little bit of King Arthur, but almost nothing related to Robin Hood. The film is certainly well made but this is not what I was expecting.