ROBIN HOOD

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This brain-numbingly awful re-imagining of my favourite legendary outlaw is a mythological medieval mess.

A shoddy riff on Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight, it sacrifices coherent fun for blundering action and a grabbag of styles, and feels as if it’s been adapted from a Batman video game.

The plot at least is familiar, with Robin returning to Nottingham from the Crusades to find his mansion destroyed and the peasants taxed to high heaven.

Whether Lord of Loxley or the outlaw known as ‘the Hood’, Taron Egerton’s geezerish Robin is smug and charmless, and the Kingsman star fails to convince as either to the manor born, or an inspirational man of the people.

Meanwhile Eve Hewson, the daughter of U2 singer Bono, plays Marian, and struggles with everyone to rise above the woeful script.

Unfathomably stupid and unforgivably dull, this Robin Hood movie is an abomination worse than Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur, and as bad as 2015’s Assassin’s Creed – wildly misfiring and always off target.