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- First reviewJune 3, 2012
- Last reviewJune 3, 2012
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Overall rating
4
/
5
Good but not Great
PostedJune 3, 2012
BellaU
from Milwaukee, WI, USA
Age:45 to 54
Gender:Female
Goes to the movies:monthly
Dialogue
4
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5
Special Effects
5
/
5
Art Direction
5
/
5
Acting
4
/
5
Story
4
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5
Camerawork
5
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5
First off - Charlize Theron was down right evil and SO AWESOME at it! Bravo Charlize!! Chris Hemsworth as the Huntsman was fantastic, a tortured soul looking for a way out of his own personal pain. And I loved all of the dwarves and would have like to have seen even more of them. Stellar CGI for them and far more could have been done with that. They added the punches of humor the story needed to keep it from becoming totally morose. All this and the special effects/art direction are the reason I'm giving this movie 4 stars.
Kristen Stewart on the other hand, was kind of hard to get behind as Snow White. It was a lot of her staring at the world around her, not speaking and when she did speak, it felt like that 'stammering teenager angst' from the Twilight series that tends to drive me up a wall. Yes, I get that she's dealing with an evil queen and the world she knows turning into a living hell, but really? One would think a princess with such a good heart would have understood by this time, that the queen wants her dead. Maybe it was the editing of her part, or maybe it's just her acting skills, but I had a hard time rooting for her - and I wanted to - but I rooted for the Huntsman, Prince William and dwarves far more easily.
I had wanted to see this movie because it was more in line with the Brothers Grimm version and the special effects looked spectacular. I wasn't disappointed in either of these aspects, though it seemed as though the story dragged at points and the ending seemed to lack something... a lot of something for me. In fact, kind of felt cheated in the way it ended and I think that's why I came away from it kind of, okay - it was good, and I'm glad I saw it on the big screen to get the full effect of the power behind what the story is trying to say, but for me, I won't see it again until it hits cable.
Pros great story, great actors
Cons bad acting, slow
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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