The Uprising (2026)
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- Synopsis:
- Based on the true story of the uprising that inspired the legend of Robin Hood, Andrew Garfield stars as the leader of a rebellion against the tyranny of King Richard II (Woody Norman) in a fight for justice.
- Actors:
- Andrew Garfield, Jamie Bell, Stephen Dillane, Woody Norman, Katherine Waterston, Mark Redhead, Tom Hollander, Stanley Townsend, Dónal Finn, Sam Chapman, Scout Worsley, Anthony Webster, Sky Yang, Gerald Tyler, Luke Booys, Cosmo Jarvis, Thomasin McKenzie-Harcourt, Simon Kunz, Jonny Lee Miller, Jamie Maclachlan
- Directors:
- Paul Greengrass
- Producers:
- Jason Blum, Gregory Goodman, Paul Greengrass, Joanna Kaye, Joe Neurauter, Lars Sylvest
- Writers:
- Paul Greengrass
- Aka:
- The Rage
- Studio:
- Entertainment Film Dist.
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Drama
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Reviews (1) of The Uprising
Taxing, in the Nicest Possible Way - The Uprising review by griggs
The peasants are revolting. The film, thankfully, behaves itself.
Give me 1381 and I'm anyone's. A teenage king, a hated poll tax and thousands of ordinary people marching on London to demand their freedom? Paul Greengrass gives it the Bourne treatment, and the jittery cameras and muddy shoving stop the tax row feeling like council admin.
I loved that Greengrass hands the story to a nameless ploughman and spares us invented backstories for Wat Tyler and John Ball. The revolt belonged to people with mud on their boots, so it's right the camera follows one of them.
The trouble is the Ploughman himself stays thin. Andrew Garfield spends most of the film looking like he's lost a field and found a migraine. Cosmo Jarvis and Jamie Bell rabble-rouse with gusto, though nobody had me reaching for a pitchfork. I was rooting for the rebels from the off, but my feelings about the film stayed stubbornly tax-exempt.
A perfectly respectable uprising. I shan't be joining the next one.