Word: mastrantonio
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...dexterity with which it shuffles and deals its assorted plot elements. Eventually, corrupt FBI men, a guy who claims to be CIA (Mickey Rourke in a role small enough so he doesn't wear out his welcome), some crooked arms dealers and a sexy mystery woman (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) all cherchez le loot. Director Roger Donaldson puts a curiously cheerful spin on paranoia, and Willem Dafoe, as a deputy sheriff, provides a knowing parody of Charlton Heston doing jut-jawed heroics...
...than active, dithering away their chances for escape and ending up as victims, not saviors. But they showed at least that women could dish out their share of violence -- whatever advance that represents. Even the muscle movies are admitting strong women. In Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is a self-reliant Maid Marian. And in the Terminator films, Linda Hamilton eats cyborgs for breakfast and spits them out like ingots...
...Costner's larger, busier take on the legend, the only green power is at the box office. With a sigh, the script reprises Robin's recruiting of his Merry Men (a pallid crowd here), his verbal jousting (uninspired), his romance with Maid Marian (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, her wondrous screen potential again untapped). The movie treats these plot points as tiresome requirements, not chances to work fresh alchemy on old elements. At 2 hours 20 minutes, the enterprise lacks passion, or even a sense of inspired fun; it is as if the filmmakers were dutifully honoring business commitments. Wading through...
These performers are British; they were steeped from birth in high style and the seductive melody of theatrical rhetoric. But the leads -- Costner, Mastrantonio, Christian Slater as Will Scarlet, Micheal McShane as Friar Tuck, Morgan Freeman as a Moor displaced in Nottingham -- are all American, intoning flat varieties of American English. They sound like tourists stranded in Sherwood Forest. And they inadvertently give a new meaning to the story: now Robin and his band are vagrant colonials who save England from those who can actually speak the language...
Even so, dozens upon dozens of theme-park and cruise-ship alumni go on to Broadway and movies, among them Oscar nominee Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (The Color of Money) and Tony nominee Patti Cohenour (The Mystery of Edwin Drood). Countless others earn a steady if unspectacular living from touring shows, club dates, commercials or studio recording...