Snow White And The Huntsman - 2012 UK/US d: Rupert Sanders
A pretty poor fantasy effort frustratingly made all the worse for having some good elements.
It looks pretty thanks to some fine locations and sets and decent camerawork. Some of the support cast are OK too.
But then...
...Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth (especially Hemsworth and his pointless and nation wandering accent; the man has even fewer expressions than Stewart) are just dreadful actors and asking them to carry a film of this size is preposterous. Had everything else about the film been perfect their presence would still have scuppered it. But everything else isn't perfect. The pacing is all over the place, ponderous then rushed and all points in between. Also so much of it is derivative of things you have seen before (mostly things directed by Peter Jackson...), there is nothing to make you sit up and take notice.
It's not utterly dreadful, it remains watchable and is a good couple of rungs above that other fairy tale adaptation, the risible Red Riding Hood, but it's still a poor film scarcely worth the time.
And I am amongst those who found the way the dwarfs were done rather tasteless and uncomfortable.
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