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article2016 Reviews,The sequel to the Snow White/Huntsman tale doesn’t really know what it wants to be and proves that a good cast doesn’t make a film automatically good.
Genre: Action/Drama/FantasyDirector: Cedric Nicolas-Troyan
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Emily Blunt, Jessica Chastain, Sope Dirisu, Nick Frost,
Rob Brydon, Sheridan Smith, Alexandra Roach & Charlize Theron.
Rob Brydon, Sheridan Smith, Alexandra Roach & Charlize Theron.
Run Time: 114 min.
US Release: 22 April 2016
UK Release: 04 April 2016
German Release: 07 April 2016
The Huntsman: Winter’s War is the official sequel to the mediocre, but nevertheless box office successful, dark fairy-tale Snow White & The Huntsman. While I wasn’t a particular fan of the first movie, I did think it was far superior to the very sappy and gooey Mirror Mirror, but I never hoped for a sequel and therefore didn’t walk into the screening room with high expectations. Walking out of the cinema I couldn’t help notice that I obtained exactly what I expected, a weak story with a good cast and solid visual effects.
This sequel tells the story of Eric, the Huntsman (Hemsworth). After shortly establishing the fact that Ravenna (Theron) also has a sister named Freya (Blunt), who turned into the Ice Queen after losing her and enslaved the northern lands. There she is building an army of Huntsmen, who are supposed to lay waste to Kingdoms and capture children to mould them into soldiers. But Eric and Sara (Chastain) fall in love and thus the Ice Queen banishes Eric.
This is a mediocre film, with just a couple of good parts; everything else in it is rather “Meh”. I’ll begin with what I liked about this fantasy flick. The dark tone used in the previous story is kept for the most part and I appreciated it because it stays true to the original fairy tales written by the brothers Grimm. I also thought that the few action sequences were fun and nice to look at. Ravenna’s short backstory was intriguing and it would have made for a more interesting fantasy-drama if the writers and producers had focused on a prequel about her character, rather than this messy pile of boredom.
My biggest issue with The Huntsman: Winter’s War is that there was no need for this sequel, as it doesn’t add anything of interest to the previous story, and is incredibly dull and boring. It includes a messy plot, since it does not know who it is targeting and thus tries to cover the whole spectrum, with the result that it is too dark for children and at the same time to sappy for adults. The comedy is awkward and does not really work, except when Nick Frost and Sheridan Smith are on screen, and the romance Nicolas-Troyan tried to build is a disgrace! We even obtain a narrator who bluntly tries to explain the obvious and then there is the issue of Snow White, who gets mentioned throughout the movie but is never shown.
I also had the feeling that the writers and directors were unsure of what story they wanted to tell; it begins as a prequel, telling the story of how Ravenna came to possess the mirror and then fast forwards through the story of her sister, who after getting her heart broken moves to the north where she turns the lands into cold wastelands and builds an army to conquer the northern kingdoms. Then it conveniently jumps over the story of the first one and continues right after Snow White beats Ravenna and wins her Kingdom back, turning the film into a sequel. Last, but not least, they should have left Ravenna out of the third act, leaving Freya to be manipulated by the mirror itself.
Chris Hemsworth reprises his role as the Huntsman and is even given a backstory. While the man does have charisma, I would not consider him to be a talented actor. I like him in the Thor films but other than that his performances are usually forgettable and that’s the case with his character in this fairy tale, as he is struggling with creating a convincing Scottish accent for his character. Eric was taken away from his family to serve the Ice Queen as one of her army’s huntsmen, but when he falls in love with his female partner Sara, the Queen banishes him from her lands.
Jessica Chastain is a really talented actress, but disappointed me deeply in this fantasy-drama! Her portrayal of Sara is wooden and cold, which leads to a lack of chemistry between her and co-actor Hemsworth. Chastain had even bigger problems at adopting a Scottish accent, sounding ridiculous and simply unbelievable. I am curious as to why she was given the role when it is obvious that the character envisioned by the writers needs no talent to be portrayed on film.
Emily Blunt played Freya/The Ice Queen and she gave one of the better performances in this weak fairy tale. You truly believed that her soul was turned to ice by the sorrow of her loss and the subsequently broken heart she suffered from it. Sadly those events are skipped over so fast that not even Blunt’s performance is able to make up for the lack of character development. Thus, the audience could not care less what happened to Freya that ultimately turned her into the cold-hearted Ice Queen.
Nick Frost, Rob Brydon & Sheridan Smith were my favourite characters. Sadly their characters are mere sidekicks of the big, dull hero and Frost only appears in the second act. Still, it is them that make this movie, at least, a little bit fun and bearable, with Frost and Roach having better chemistry and a more believable romantic arc then our main characters.
As far as effects go, this fairy tale has some pretty solid and good looking CGI tricks and creatures, such as the golden laced goblins, the Ice Queen’s powers and of course the mirror’s beautiful effect when you call upon it. Frost, Brydon, Smith and Roach’s makeup, which turned the quartet into dwarves, is great and the overall costume design looks fantastic. Nevertheless, there were also effects I didn’t find really convincing; such as Ravenna’s black “tar” powers, once she is released from the mirror.
Verdict: This fairy tale is more than stale; the plot is weak and has nothing new to offer, the performances are mediocre and the title is completely misleading since nothing in this film suggests that there is a waging winter’s war. Director Cedric Nicolas-Troyan has focused on producing a nice looking movie without substance, rather than a quality film with a good story and some character depth. Fans of the previous Snow White/Huntsman tale will probably enjoy this fantasy flick, even if it does ignore some of the facts established in the first movie. Other than that, I cannot really recommend you wasting your money by going to see this pointless sequel in cinemas. I will give The Huntsman: Winter’s War a 5.5 out of 10.
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