Snow White, apple, evil witch, charming prince, dwarves.. checked! These are all the elements that you will always see in all the snow white movies so far, from mirror mirror, to once upon a time and now onto Snow white and the hunter.
This show tries to do things differently, not only by fleshing out the huntsman character into the show, but also by telling the story in a far different tone from the previous ones...
Heres the poster and if you compare this with the mirror mirror one.. you can see the difference.
Compared with this
See the difference? See the angst and fierceness in the poster? See the lack of a smile? That is the angle that this movie is going. So read on to think whether this is the movie for you... and also.. your children...
Storyline 3/5
The story of Snow White has been retold again and again, but this is probably the 2nd time i heard that there was this huntsman character inside this show, the other being in once upon a time which is a TV series. Never heard the whole story with regards to the huntsman and this is probably true for many of you also. Thus we could say that there is a bit more "originality" to the storyline with just slight twists here and there. But all the other traditional elements are there from magic to snow white to the dwarves. (Although it seems that it is not 7 dwarves for this show)
Because of that however, some of the content will be unfamilar and some viewers might not understand or comprehand this new story angle... so its pretty hard to judge conclusively if the storyline is in fact good. At best, I would say it is merely just different....
It also doesn't really help that we all already know how the story ends, thus the only thing most people can derive joy from the show is when we see something that we know is a integral part of the story... like the apple.
Character 2.5/5
To be honest, this show gives the main characters pretty fine screen time, but everyone else is completely similar and very unimpressive. For example the dwarves, there are 7 of them, but what this show does is give them very short bits of screen time, which does not do anything to distinguish one from another. Then the subordinates of the queen are given screen time like they are supposed to be unique... but the show script doesn't give them any unique actions and no one has much idea where they come from and what they are doing here.
Even more unfortunate is the huntsman... that is really cliche, but the things that happen to him and the resulting choices he makes because of that seems to be really unrealistic and are there merely to give the movie something to talk about. So is the prince too.. sure he has more screen time, but the things he does is so generic and unimpressive that this show could honestly work even without him. Yep it is that bad...
Of course Snow and Queen do have the majority of the parts, only the queen struck an impression within me while snow just prances around looking all angsty and giving a random uninspiring speech.
Cinematography 4/5
This is one section of the show where we did see the effort placed in cinematography. There are alot of epic shots used appropriately to highlight importand events, and like how they probably have too many supporting characters for their own good, they also have that many shots of more random fighters just to lend some more immersiveness into the show.
They also have alot of other perspective shots to try to add more fun and entertainment to the show and to be honest this is still done relatively well even though the shots serve very little to improve the show.
Plus points however is that the actress for the evil queen, does the character very well... very quickly you will grow to dislike this evil queen and yet also feel a bit of pity towards her when you see her end. Sadly though, the forgettable acting from the Snow white herself marred the show from doing better, I aint sure why but to me it seems like that actress is only able to exhibit angst or frustration or anger of some sorts.
Music 3/5
Music was forgettable, but not a hindrance. So I will rate it right there smack in the centre.
Spectacle 3/5
Ok over here is where the lack of a clear direction of the movie shows. Through out the show you would be thinking what exactly is this show's focus... is it on the storyline?? is it on the epic fights?? is it on the one to one fights?? is this an action movie?? Sadly, all the possibilities that could be what this show should have focused on was not well done at all. As a result, every field where you expect to see more will be abruptly ended. Epic war fight going on,... suddenly zoom back to someone else's view and suddenly hey the focus is no longer on the battle. Add to this some real little bits of supposedly comedic moments and you end up in a state of confusion and dissatisfaction.
Of course it is not fair to say that it fails in any of those areas but merely it is a probably of not being focused enough and leaving all fans of various aspects feeling just that tad bit lacking.
Overall
Storyline : 3 (Same story but has a very very slight twist to it)
Character : 2.5 (Too many characters, but they didnt even make their main character interesting)
Cinematography: 4 (Its obvious that they focused quite a bit on this aspect)
Music : 3 (Generic type of music)
Spectacle : 3 (Too many audience it is trying to cater to, but not really achieving.)
Overall : 3.1 (Its really a fair show to see if you have nothing to do better and want to spend some time in a stationary position. Fans however who expect to see major action or a nice story line type of movie will not really be entirely satisfied given how things have went. This is also not a very happy show and in fact the entire movie atmosphere is pretty dark. Hence I would not really recommend you bring your kids to see unless they are fine with what ever violence they might see in the show. Try perhaps to really expect nothing too much and perhaps you might be able to find a bit of pleasure in the show.)
So tell me if you seen the show yourself and never be afraid to comment :)
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