Review of The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016) by Kadeemluvmusic — 24 Apr 2016

I'm just getting a bit confused. Instead of calling it a sequel, then why is it a prequel? Can't Hollywood just name one Huntsman movie for pete's sake? I wanted Huntsman: Winter's War to be the best Snow White movie since the first. Oh wait, they lied because there's no Snow White in this sequel. Maybe it's because Kristen Stewart decided to chose indie movies instead of making another sequel to the decent Snow White And The Huntsman after an ongoing altercation between both Stewart and director of the first film, Rupert Sanders not only because of their off-set relationship causes Stewart and Sanders off the project. But it seems to me like you want to take a page out of Disney, right? Wrong. The Huntsman: Winter's War is arguably the worst sequel of 2016 (allegedly, Allegiant takes that dishonor). The cast looked pretty good (except for Hemsworth because he can bring down the hammer in both Thor and The Avengers movies, but as a solo movie actor... well, he's still working on it.) but the accents by both Jessica Chastain (Scottish) and Chris Hemsworth (Irish) are terrible. I don't wanna disrespect Charlize Theron by the way. Last year, Furiosa was the ultimate scene stealer that melted my heart in the rebooted Mad Max: Fury Road (she needs her own movie right now called Furiosa, the same name as her character) Emily Blunt is very awesome but my problem is, this movie doesn't have any potential with a decent all-star cast but no K-Stew involved which is sad because I thought she did an excellent job as Snow White.

The story is sometimes lacking and dull makes me think of Jack and the Beanstalk with little less flair. Although I do get a bit praise or its use of CGI-special effects and a wonderful set of costume designs featured in the movie like Theron's set pieces as Elsa the Snow Queen (which taken the page from last year's season of Once Upon A Time). However, the 'prequel sequel' thing becomes stagnant because people didn't seemed to care if it's still going to be as a sequel or just make something different and change it to an origin story that come just years before Snow White. Besides it just already came out despite competing against Disney's "Jungle Book" remake, the results were underwhelming. Winter's War is poorly-executed, bad timing to release it now instead of the summer movie season, and after years of troubled production issues, it came a little too late and just like last year's big turd of a sci-fi bomb "Jupiter Ascending," it'll be a matter of time if this is another case of box office poison since movies that should've released during the summer pushed back to the Spring is a bad idea.

In short, I'll just save my money and because I cannot wait for Captain America: Civil War to come out because I've already ordered tickets through the Fandango app. As for The Huntsman: Winter's War, better safe than sorry because this is the absolute worst movie of 2016. So if you prefer skipping this movie (I did), I rather rent Snow White and the Huntsman first.