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I was so looking forward to this. Pity it didn't live up to its promise. It looked gorgeous, lovely palette of steely greys, blues, and metallic silvers, but, oh dear, the script.
This was a big-budget, sideways take on the Snow White story with pitched battles, nail-biting escapes through a dark forest, lots of action, CGI and effects. There's a team of veteran and venerable British character actors (Ian McShane, Bob Hoskins, Ray Winstone, Nick Frost etc.) playing the dwarves as an unloveable (but endearing) bunch of cutthroats
Kristen Stewart is OK but doesn't sparkle. If we're supposed to believe that the mirror thought she was fairer than Charlize Theron's Wicked Queen, then the mirror should have gone to Specsavers. Chris Hemsworth had the right look - suitably lowbrow - but what on earth was that accent supposed to be? I have a feeing it might have been Scottish - in which case... ouch! Ray Winstone unsurprisingly played it as Essex again, but I swear I did hear a couple of Scottish -sounding phrases from Ian McShane, however it was as if most of the time he forgot to use any other accent than his own, which is possibly a blessing.
Anyhow the story is good enough. Snow White escapes the castle and flees into the dark forest whereupon the Queen (via her slimy brother) engages the Huntsman since he's one of the few who's been to the forest and returned again. Yes, the huntsmn turns out to have a heart of gold, but the relationship between him and Snow never plays out fully and the ending is somewhat ambiguous. There's another love interest, the Duke's son, Snow's childhood friend. This William character, who doesn't actually do much, is played totally forgettably by Sam Claflin. There could have been some good triangular tension in there between Snow, William and the Huntsman, but there wasn't.
And did I say about the script? There's one point where Snow is rallying the troops to attack the Wicked Queen's castle when it just sounds like a bunch of random phrases tacked together in the wrong order so it reduces the whole scene to meaningless drivel.
Now having said all that, in essence I enjoyed my 2 hours of actual watching - always willing to suspend disbelief when mesmerised by images on the big screen. I certainly wouldn't tell you to avoid this movie. Just don't expect it to be everything it could have been or as good as the trailer makes you think it will be..
This was a big-budget, sideways take on the Snow White story with pitched battles, nail-biting escapes through a dark forest, lots of action, CGI and effects. There's a team of veteran and venerable British character actors (Ian McShane, Bob Hoskins, Ray Winstone, Nick Frost etc.) playing the dwarves as an unloveable (but endearing) bunch of cutthroats
Kristen Stewart is OK but doesn't sparkle. If we're supposed to believe that the mirror thought she was fairer than Charlize Theron's Wicked Queen, then the mirror should have gone to Specsavers. Chris Hemsworth had the right look - suitably lowbrow - but what on earth was that accent supposed to be? I have a feeing it might have been Scottish - in which case... ouch! Ray Winstone unsurprisingly played it as Essex again, but I swear I did hear a couple of Scottish -sounding phrases from Ian McShane, however it was as if most of the time he forgot to use any other accent than his own, which is possibly a blessing.
Anyhow the story is good enough. Snow White escapes the castle and flees into the dark forest whereupon the Queen (via her slimy brother) engages the Huntsman since he's one of the few who's been to the forest and returned again. Yes, the huntsmn turns out to have a heart of gold, but the relationship between him and Snow never plays out fully and the ending is somewhat ambiguous. There's another love interest, the Duke's son, Snow's childhood friend. This William character, who doesn't actually do much, is played totally forgettably by Sam Claflin. There could have been some good triangular tension in there between Snow, William and the Huntsman, but there wasn't.
And did I say about the script? There's one point where Snow is rallying the troops to attack the Wicked Queen's castle when it just sounds like a bunch of random phrases tacked together in the wrong order so it reduces the whole scene to meaningless drivel.
Now having said all that, in essence I enjoyed my 2 hours of actual watching - always willing to suspend disbelief when mesmerised by images on the big screen. I certainly wouldn't tell you to avoid this movie. Just don't expect it to be everything it could have been or as good as the trailer makes you think it will be..
