Snow White & The Huntsman

Genre: Action/Adventure/Drama  // Running Time: 127 minutes // Release Date: June 1, 2012
Cast & Crew at IMDB - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1735898/

Overall Rating 6 out of 10

Synopsis: After being held captive for most of her life Snow White escapes into the dark forest and is pursued by the Huntsmen and the Queen's men. The Huntsman quickly changes from working to capture Snow White to helping her and they set off to elude the Queen's brother and his men.

If you read the synopsis on the IMDB website, you will know that it is inaccurate, in that the Huntsman is never ordered to take Snow White into the woods to be killed, or is he ever ordered to kill her. Perhaps that was an early draft of the script, or someone got the plot for this Snow White movie confused with the Mirror Mirror plot.

Speaking of Mirror Mirror, this adaptation of Snow White is much more entertaining and a much better film than Mirror Mirror. The story is much better, and definitely much more exciting. I didn't feel like sleeping through this one, so that's probably a strong indicator that it's better than Mirror Mirror already.

Aside from casting Kristen Stewart, I thought they did a relatively good job with this movie. It had a lot of good action and fight scenes. The story was at least mildly interesting with a few good twists in the plot. There's quite a few parts that are pretty funny, and the acting (aside from Kristen Stewart) was also good. The dwarves are especially good with Ian McShane, Bob Hoskins, Ray Winstone, & Eddie Marsan particularly. Charlize Theron looks fantastic and also plays a deranged evil witch rather well. Chris Hemsworth is good as the Huntsman, but it's still pretty hard not to look at him and think of Thor, even with the dyed hair. Kristen Stewart still can't act her way out of a paper bag and I don't know if I'd go so far to say she's the fairest in all the land, but she's not hideous, so I'll let that one go.

All in all, I felt the movie was worth my money. It was entertaining and there were no overly dull parts or anything like that to ruin my experience. It's a touch long for my liking, but it's not boring so I didn't really notice. If you've already seen The Avengers and MIB3, this is probably one of your best bets for an entertaining night at the movies.