The fairytale is over.
After the Evil Queen marries the King, she performs a violent coup in which the King is murdered and his daughter, Snow White, is taken captive. Almost a decade later, a grown Snow White is still in the clutches of the Queen. In order to obtain immortality, The Evil Queen needs the heart of Snow White. After Snow escapes the castle, the Queen sends the Huntsman to find her in the Dark Forest.
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- DoryDarkoon TMDB · Feb 20178/10
Ever since I saw the first photographs of Snow White and the Huntsman surface on IMDb about a year ago, I've been extremely excited to see this film. And over the past few weeks, that excitement only built op more and more to the point where almost no film can meet such high expectations. See, I have always loved the fairy tale of Snow White and the evil queen, but never before had anyone attempted to make it into what I believe it was always meant to be: a Gothic tale of fantasy and horror, rather than a sweet night time story. And now, with a much promising trailer, it appeared that Rupert Sanders had fulfilled my wish. And even though he has claimed quite some artistic license story wise, the end very much justifies the means. Snow White and the Huntsman is a film worth watching. Literally everything I ever imagined about this classic story is there. The Dark Forest is actually Dark. It's creepy and spooky in the best kind of nightmarish way. Funnily enough, throughout the film there were some analogies with the classic Disney film. For instance, in the Dark Forest, the tree branches move autonomously towards whoever dare enter their territory, grasping around like freakish claw
Read the whole review on TMDB - Dark Jedion TMDB · Oct 20128/10
This is not the fairy tale from Walt Disney that we have become used to but a rather more mature dark and sinister movie. I have to say that I enjoyed this movie. Despite that a lot of the world is much darker and filled of despair in this movie the photography is nice and the film is beautiful to watch. The film focuses a lot more on the huntsman than previous Snow White movies that I have seen and I think this is also the first one that I have seen where snow white mounts up in full battle armor. I think it worked quite well. There is quite a few special effects in the movie but not enough to overdo it and they are reasonably well done as far as I am concerned. As I mentioned earlier the plot is somewhat different although it follows the general lines of the original story. It is still a fairly simple adventure/action plot but it holds together well enough. The dwarfs are present of course and, although the film takes much more serious take to the Snow White story, they still give you a laugh or two. There are a couple of scenes which more or less seemed to be fillers with not that much to add to the story but they did not really disturb the flow of the movie either. When the cre
Read the whole review on TMDB - Kamuraion TMDB · Feb 20218/10
Great watch, will likely watch again, and do recommend. This is probably my favorite Snow White story version to date. I'm a fan of Kristen Stewart, and both Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron are both top tier actors giving amazing performances. A dark and gritty tale with plenty of money to fuel the amazing CG effects of the movie. The story is well laid out with complex multi-threading, Each story thread is actually interesting and I've always thought fairy tales like Snow White needed more fight and military battle scenes. Charlize Theron really steals the show, not only as a villain, but she embodies the insanity of the character and is worth the watch all on its own.
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Cast
- Kristen StewartSnow White
- Chris HemsworthThe Huntsman
- Charlize TheronQueen Ravenna
- Sam ClaflinWilliam
- Ian McShaneBeith
- Ray WinstoneGort
- Nick FrostNion
- Noah HuntleyKing Magnus
- Toby JonesColl
- Eddie MarsanDuir
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- Rupert SandersDirector
- Evan DaughertyScreenplay
- John Lee HancockScreenplay
- Hossein AminiScreenplay
- Greig FraserDirector of Photography
- James Newton HowardOriginal Music Composer
- Neil SmithEditor
- Conrad Buff IVEditor
- Sam MercerProducer
- Joe RothProducer
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