Why so much hype?

Touches You

Let's be realistic.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

This movie is not even remotely good. I appreciate a good low budget or even micro budget film. This is not that! The acting is brutal, line delivery is like listening to a customer service line where the English is forced at best with extreme limited understand-ability, and there is no coherent direction for the film. It's a comedy ... no it's an action flick ... but wait it's a zombie movie. I mean it can be all three if meshed together and apparent. This is not meshed at all. It goes in one direction then another and another. Serious, scary, fun, silly, or just plain no good? Guess.. I'm not a big fan, but I did watch the whole movie & the special features which made me understand the quality a bit.

I have been using IMDb for years and have never bothered writing a review for anything. But, for this film, I felt a duty to warn people. Robin Hood The Ghost of Sherwood, sounds simple enough. From reading the back of the box it sounded like it was just a low budget version of the tale. Now for the problems: The acting was horrible. The film was shot in Germany with unknown German actors who had no talent whatsoever. To make matters worse the film was shot in German and they used English dubbing, (which made it even worse). When the actors delivered a line it reminded me of someone just saying the lines out loud to confirm that they had it memorized. There was no emotion, no acting at all. I've had more fun watching paint dry.The plot was the worst part. About halfway through the film Robin Hood and all of his men are killed by the Sheriff's soldiers. Marian and Little John were the only ones to survive and it just so happens that Marian knew of a witch that could bring the dead back to life. So, they go there, kill the witch, take all of her potions, go back to camp and give the potion of the undead to everyone. Well, they got there too late and while Robin and all of his men come back to life, they now have a craving for human flesh. Yeah, you read that right, Robin Hood and his men are now zombies and the run around Sherwood Forest eating people. Marian and Little John still have bags of the witch's potion, so they find some that they can use. So now the two of them are running around Sherwood Forest while Little John throws rocks, yes rocks, at them and says some dumb word to make the rocks explode on impact (sipzoso, I think it was) or something to that effect. Oh, and of the potions caused a meteor shower. They use one of the potions to trap Robin and his men in the forest, then Marian goes to the Sheriff and tricks him into the forest so that Robin can kill him.I would have given this movie zero stars but one star was as low as I could go. After watching the first half hour of the movie, I seriously considered turning it off, but I thought, it can't get any worse. Well, I was wrong. It got worse. A lot worse. Anyone who likes Robin Hood or an adventure movie in general, avoid this like the plague, there are a lot better movies out there about Robin Hood than this.If you want to see Robin Hood, check out the 2010 version starring Russell Crowe or Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves starring Kevin Costner made in 1991. There was also a television series made in the UK that started five or six years ago. It only went for three seasons, but it was very enjoyable and well made. Any of these are a better choice than this garbage.

I had some hope for this movie, as the first two minutes were not too bad action in a fast pace, but then... the titles, two minutes of stills. No panning even. That really pulled me back to my original bias, that this would be a badly done movie. Yep. Some minutes later Robin and Marian have a dialog. Both performances are truly beyond every grade of awful. The conversation dry and unable to catch my interest in any way. At this point, I see that any further watching of this poor excuse for a movie, would be a real pain. So I deleted it, and decided to write this as a warning. Even if you are a Robin Hood fan, or like to grab a low budget movie once in a while, do not watch this one. It is a f*ckload of diseased crap.

I have to say, I was looking forward to see this movie since I first heard of it. Storyline seemed to be really interesting. Finally I was able to catch the German DVD release of 'Robin Hood: Ghosts of Sherwood' and I must say it was a huge letdown for me. The biggest problem with the movie is It's non existing budget. They shot it in 3D which was probably quite expensive alone but sorry to say, it was just a waste of money and those money could(and should) be spent on something else. You simply can't do a movie set in a medieval times with knights, sword fights etc without the real budget. It's not about putting 4 guys in the armors, give them fake swords and tell to 'make an impression'. I knew from the beginning that It's gonna be really bad movie, when I saw sword fights(well 'fight' is not an accurate word) in the first 5 minutes. There was no choreography whatsoever and it looked so amateurish it hurts. It reminded me various 'castle tournaments' I have seen many times. The difference is, those shows were done for 5 years old kids and no one cared how badly they looked but this is a movie, serious one....well at least it tries to be. IMDb states that budget was around 200 000 euros which is impossible, highly doubt it could be more expensive than 100k, rather less. It was shot in Germany and must I say - locations look great. The forest is really interesting, castle looks cool so does the river but unfortunately the locations and a score are the only good things about this film. Since it was shot in Germany, it has German cast and the director decided to go with English dubbing which unfortunately doesn't work and is superbly annoying. It would work better if the makers would go and hire German actors who could actually speak in English. Most of the cast are amateurs(director's friends I guess) and we have two exceptions. FX Legend Tom Savini plays sheriff of Nottingham and Kane Hodder plays Little John. I know that Savini likes to act in low and no budget movies and to be honest he can even give a nice performance but here, he's just awful like everyone else plus his screen time is extremely limited. Little better can be said about Kane Hodder who also has a strange tendency to appear in a movies as an actor lately. Well, I know he is Jason Voorhees, he is Victor Crowley etc but for God's sake he is a stuntman, without any acting talent. Surprisingly he's probably the best actor in the entire movie. Appears on screen 20 minutes before the end but from then, he is in pretty much each scene. If you are looking for a horror movie, better look somewhere else. It's being promoted as a horror movie but there are very few horror elements in the entire movie. For the most part It's just an adventure movie(boring one) with German woman and gay looking Robin Hood slowly falling for each other. The horror part starts in the last 20 minutes or so. Robin and his pals are turned into flesh eating zombies and run no budget havoc in the forest(which means they don't do anything really). There are few cheap gore tricks and two nice decapitations but It's just non existent for a movie which lasts for almost two hours. I really wanted to like this, I knew It's gonna be low budget but it was beyond bad, mostly because it was boring and English dubbing sucked big time. I know for sure that I won't watch this again in my life. I have seen worse movies but still it was very close to the bottom of filmmaking. I will give it three because of a beautiful locations, nice score and two names which were still kind of relief when compared with dubbed amateurs.