Is this better than Mirror,Mirror? Probably.
Snow White & the Huntsman is directed by Rupert Sanders and stars Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Sam Clafin, Ian McShane, and Nick Frost. It is the second and darker take on the Snow White story this year. The first one, Mirror Mirror, is the one of which I was not a fan. Now, the evil queen, Ravenna ,must drain the life of Snow White in order for her spell not to break. Snow White has been trapped in the castle for years until she escapes and travels to the dark forest. The queen then hires a huntsman to go to the dark forest but after the huntsman finds out that he was tricked, he decides to help Snow White by training her to defeat the queen and lead a rebellion. Snow White & the Huntsman was my second most anticipated movie for June, number one is Prometheus. Anyway, I really enjoyed this movie and that suprised me. The thing about Snow White & the Huntsman is that it is not afraid to be darker as the trailers made it look . The briefly used comic relief mostly comes from the dwarf played by Nick Frost. It is hilarious how Nick Frost was a dwarf with all this makeup.
Now that we've got that out of the way, let's get to the performances. Charlize Theron was pretty good as the evil queen. Sometimes, I thought she was acting a little over the top in some of her line deliveries, . Chris Hemsworth is, in my opinion, the best actor in this movie. He had an accent that I wish Charlize Theron and Kristen Stewart used instead of the British accent. Kristen Stewart was really good also and even though I have never seen Twilight, she doesn't show much emotion like in Twilight. Except now it pays off for no emotion due to the fact that in this movie, Snow White was traumatized when seeing her dead father. That's not a spoiler because it is in the trailer. The film was also boring in the middle and was too long which is a problem I had with the film. I think that ten or fifteen minutes could've been cut out. However, that was the only problem I had with this movie.
The visual effects in this movie are superb. A scene where the evil queen takes broken glass and turns it into an army of knights just blew my mind. Most of the visual effects take place in the dark forest, like the troll whch looked so real. I enjoyed this movie and is the fourth best movie of the year, I will give Snow White & the Huntsman a 7.5/10.
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