Review of Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) by Midlands M — 19 Oct 2013

The "colonel" directs Kristen Stewart as Snow White and Thor himself Chris Hemsworth as the Huntsman (although he plays it as the Scotsman) in this folk fairy epic with brilliant cameos from great British character actors Ray Winstone, Bob Hoskins, Nick Frost and more who are CGI'd into the infamous 7 dwarves.

Going for a re-imagining of the tale, it is visually similar to Lord of the Rings, Narnia and Ridley Scott's new Robin Hood, but the tone and plot are more akin to the earlier and "grimier" Prince of Thieves.

This echoes most familiarly with an usurping villain (Rickman in Hood, Theron here) killing the hero's father and then said hero escaping their clutches to form a rag-tag gang from a forest (Merry Men/dwarves) and teaming with a former enemy (huntsman/Morgan Freeman's Moor) before leading a horseback charge on a castle's ramparts.

No bad thing there but the quality is uneven and script/characters all over the place with very little empathy for anyone other than (ironically) Theron as the evil witch whose one-note sadistic performance is clearly the best thing about the movie.

One for the Twi-whites methinks! 6/10 Midlands Movies Mike.