Taron Egerton’s Robin of Loxley struts and pouts through his manor before being sent to the Crusades, where he stands up for the Moor who will become this version’s Little John (Jamie Foxx, who must have lost a bet).

On returning to England, Robin sets his sights on avenging the injustices committed by the Sheriff of Nottingham, who is portrayed by Ben Mendelsohn as a kind of cross between Ian McKellen in “Richard III,” from 1995, and the guy from the Trivago commercials. Eve Hewson, who was so great on “The Knick,” is Marian, styled as if for a medieval Maxim shoot.

“They were young, in love, and that was all that mattered, until the cold hand of fate reached out for them,” the narrator notes of the couple’s early days, during which they are seen kissing while backing each other into a wall.

The plot is twisty in a perfunctory way, the action predictably explosive, the sought-after exhilaration nonexistent.