Great Film overall

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Movie Review: "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012)Universal Studios, indulging on an exclusive distribution deal with Roth Films, led by New-York-City based producer Joe Roth, who commissioned a re-interpretation of the 1812 published fairy tale compilation of German-folklore-rooted writing "Brother Grimm", when screenwriter Evan Daughtery & Hossein Amini grooming a script for director John Lee Hancock, known for directing "The Blind Side" starring Sandra Bullock, to then again all-around industry surprises given the direction to feature debutante Rupert Sanders, convincing producer Roth as Universal executives with a well-executed as visually-stunning, feature pre-visualized short film to be given an high-end presumingly minimum of a 170-Million-Dollar production budget, two feminine-striking Hollywood stars with Charlize Theron as Evil step-mother Ravenna and Kirsten Stewart as cell-hidden and tortured Snow White, battling in major league décor designed by production design Dominic Watkins, to the death.Cinematography under Greig fraser's orchestration had been the chance to be awe-striking brilliant, but then with still-keeping-up to industrial possibilities searching first-time director Rupert Sanders becomes the coverage for "Snow White and the Huntsman" industry close-to-television standards, which tend to convince only through impossible-strong as expensive visual effects supervised by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, known for learning his craft on the production for "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" (2006), when a further joyful ensemble cast led by supporting character "The Huntsman", performed by another-heroic-act pushing actor Chris Hemsworth, alongside an amazingly entertaining group of dwarves, digitally-shrunk performers surrounding actor Ian McShane, Toby Jones, Eddie Marsan, Ray Winstone and Bob Hopkins (1942-2012) as Muir in his final performance.Leading actress Kirsten Stewart left in still-recovering moods from endless production cycles of the "Twilight" movie series somewhere between early 2008 and mid-2012 re-shoots, when the actress plays for the camera with haunting green eyes and white skin; nevertheless to much left alone by technically-overthrowns director Rupert Sanders to be of conviction in final confrontations with Charlize Theron's out-for-blood as overly-raging performance as Ravenna, stealing every single scene, she performs in to further at least lavishingly-accomplished Academy-Award-nominated costume design by Colleen Atwood, who won her first Oscar for designing all wardrobe in favors of Rob Marshall's musical crime-drama "Chicago".© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

"Snow White and the Huntsman" is an American English-language movie from 2012, so this one has its 5th anniversary this year. The script is by Evan Daugherty and he collaborated with two other writers, including an Oscar nominee on this one here. The director is Rupert Sanders and I guess most people know this name now because of what happened behind the scenes of the shooting of this 2-hour movie here. He had an affair with lead actress Kristen Stewart that resulted in the end of his marriage as well as the end of Stewart's relationship with Robert Pattinson. Quite a coincidence that this happens exactly the same time the Twilight franchise ends, the series of films that turned Stewart into a global super star. But lets not talk about that any further as we will never find the details and truth about all this anyway. Instead, let us talk about this film we have here. It came out actually at a time when several Snow White films were made. Another one starred Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen and then there is also a Spanish movie that brought us back to the days of silent film and combined bullfighting with this classic tale.But this one we have here is probably the most known, even if the Spanish one was received with the most praise by critics. One reason is this one here scored two Oscar nominations in the visual categories (costumes and effects). And then there's of course the stars attached to it. Film buffs know Stewart, Hemsworth, Theron and probably also a few of the supporting actors, especially the dwarfs. By the way, the title is very fitting as Hemsworth was too big of a star by 2012 already to play a minor part only. He starred in "Thor" as the title character the year before and as a consequence they pretty much turned him into a co-lead here. He is always on Snow White's side during their journey and the aspect with the animal heart and the attempt to trick the queen was not referenced in here at all. Of course, there are more differences compared to the very old animated movie by Disney. One would be the complete lack of humour and comedy, but that's not a problem at all as this darker approach works well too. A huge problem, however, is the way Stewart's character turns into an action heroine eventually and this had nothing to do with Snow White anymore. She was that fragile volatile character early on and basically for the entire film and then after she awakens she suddenly has all this power and spirit and it just did not feel realistic. The fact that they put her in some heavy knight armor with a powerful sword did not make it more believable either, even if it is an okay reference to Theron's character's early comment about what Snow White would do with a sword. Now that I have mentioned the film's biggest weakness perhaps, you could even say the last 25 minutes roughly, time to mention the film's biggest strength. It is probably the visual side because this was at times a really beautiful movie. My favorite scene is probably the one with the poisonous apple.But with this beauty comes some struggle too. I don't think the film ever made Snow White look as great to an extent that we are really buying into the whole idea that she is the solution to all the problems, that she will bring back life, also to nature during that scene with the majestic deer. There just wasn't enough build-up to that point really for me to believe it. Other criticisms for me include the romance aspect in here. Apparently Snow White was attracted to her childhood friend as she wanted to kiss him in the scene I mentioned earlier, but then it is Hemsworth's character who kisses her, so she is brought back to life. I think the latter would have been the better choice to be honest as seriously Claflin's character has very little background in terms of the story. We have that one scene really early when they were playing as kids and then later on he is just there and Snow White is apparently suddenly in love with him. Romance is never one of the strengths of the film to be honest. Maybe they should have kept it out completely. The love story line with Hemsworth's character and his dead wife is still compelling enough, maybe elaborated a bit more on this one and it would have been okay.Now for the villains, Theron does a good job for sure and she also has decent material to work with. But I also want to mention Spruell here, a name that not too many probably know, but he played his part well I guess and deserves the consideration overall. As a whole, this film pretty much delivered all I expected and this includes the positive and the negative. Yes there are weaknesses in here, but there are also positive moments and as a whole I think it was pretty balanced. It was a solid movie that felt especially in the first half a bit too long for its own good as not too much happened for this runtime. But I still recommend seeing it, especially to fans of Stewart (like myself) and Hemsworth. Sadly I must say that Stewart did not really have the material to shine in here, but this is also not unexpected looking at the genre. It was not good enough to get me really curious about the recent sequel, but all in all I give "Snow White and the Huntsman" a thumbs-up. You definitely can go for it.

In contrast to many reviewers, I really liked Kristen Stewart's performance here. She's sort of a tomboy princess, with the requisite untouchable purity that the part demands. Again in contrast to others, I find her performance subtle and intelligent--never overstated. And her beauty is iconic, which fits the classic nature of the tale. I wouldn't want some overly lush,overly "sexy" young actress in this role. Of course Charlize Theron is excellent as the evil queen, as are the rather Romanesque or perhaps Gothic visual effects. In addition, almost any movie with the great character actors Bob Hoskins and Eddie Marsen is worth watching. All in all, this movie is a fitting antidote to the saccharine nature of much Disney fare.

The movie has a nice story .. some good actors and some better actors but Kristen is not even close to be one of them , for the love of god those dwarfs act better than her , even that poor girl in the cell the two scenes she did equals the entire movie of Kristen .and oh my ... Charlize Theron WOW she is an amazing masterpiece and it is always a pleasure to watch her do evil , she is the only reason i watched this whole 131 minutes of this extended version , besides she is so beautiful i just love watching her .Do not waste your time watching this movie , unless you are a Charlize Theron fan .