Can't continue watching. Enormous gaps in the story, almost as if episodes were left out. The film has an excellent opportunity to reveal insight on class struggle -- rotting aristocracy vs. crude and arrogant rising bourgeoisie, same bourgeoisie making plans to rule through slavery and unrestrained violence, rural proletarians fighting in Robin-Hood style to . . . who knows. So in love with the violent and grotesque it has images that seem composed by the very corrupt bourgeoisie who watch it all. Even reviewers mistake the mud-and-blood "reality" with being impressive representation of "medieval" times -- although the time is 250 years past medieval. If a viewer has a tolerance for what we saw as shoddy story telling and over-gritty settings, maybe there's something here. We couldn't find it.
Review of Thieves of the Wood
