As far as a story goes, this movie has a pretty good one. Most people are familiar with Robin Hood, add in a beast that can also take on human form and Robin Hood's tale changes. Robin Hood still robs the rich and gives to the poor, but he now he has a creature from an enchanted forest to figure out.
It is 1174 in England and three horse riders have come in contact with a winged beast. After one of the men fall, the other two find a woman in the forest. One man, Malcolm (Julian Sands - from Warlock), notices that the woman is injured and so he stabs her. He must have some sort of intuition, because he recognizes her as the beast. Only, she does not die from her wounds. She bleeds but does not die. He believes that this could be a great weapon and when the other man wants to seek the council of the king, Malcolm kills the other man.
Little did he know that the other man's son was watching what took place.
Fast forward about 15 years. Robin Hood is stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Nothing out of the ordinary here. The story lingers on for a bit and finally Robin Hood has to go to the Dark Forest to get advice from the Keepers of the Trees.
After that, the story moves along until Robin Hood faces off with Malcolm. The winged creature doesn't play as big of a role in the ending as I had hoped, but she does rip a henchman in half. That's about the only real violence (digital or otherwise) in the whole movie. I was expecting more from the creature.
Overall, the story moved along rather nicely. There was not a lot of jumping from scene to scene like so many other B movies that I have watched recently. But for a movie that added in the digital creature to a pretty famous storyline, they didn't use it to their advantage. The glowing grapes needed to kill the creature was real quick in coming out too. Not to say that it was too quick, but attaining the grapes proved to be a little easier than I had anticipated.
I give this movie 1 1/2 out of 5 removed hearts.
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