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This may sound a little unfair, but the worst thing that Robin Hood has going for it is that it comes just one year after the aesthetically-similar King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, which became one of the biggest box office bombs of all time.

The second worst is that it has only been eight years since Ridley Scott took on the material armed with a $200m budget and Academy Award winners Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett in the leads. With these two movies lurking in the background, Otto Bathurst's feature debut really needs to stand out in order to avoid comparisons to two notorious duds.

Rebooting a public domain character just because you can is no reason to make a blockbuster movie, and the creative team behind Robin Hood must be confident enough in their version when the critics already have their knives sharpened in the wake of the King Arthur debacle.

The fact that the script comes from that movie's writer has some alarm bells ringing, as does Bathurst's lack of cinematic experience despite some stellar work on Peaky Blinders. Best case scenario we get a solid slice of escapism with Ben Mendelsohn's Sheriff of Nottingham having the potential to rival even Alan Rickman's take on the character, but its hard to get excited about yet another version of a hero that's existed in one form or another for over 700 years.