How bad is this movie?
It's really bad and the screenplay writers should hold their heads in shame. All of the fantasy cliches are here: destruction of village-Check; a lot of tracking shots of people traveling-Check; the infamous, "I'll swing my sword for you, bend my bow for you," speech-Check; villain wanting to take over the world-Check; a chosen one destined to save the world-Check; and a training scene/sequence-Check. This is one big long cliche ridden movie with little or thought actually given to anything but trying to real in the Twilight fans.
The continuity in this film is really bad and hinders most of the plot and pacing. Snow White stays locked up in that tower for like 14-15 years since she was a little girl, just think about that for a second, living in small room for that long. How would you look? What kind of knowledge would you have? How able would you be able to associate with people or for that matter even converse with people? Then all of sudden she escapes and is thrust forcibly into the world and responds with no real amazement, in fact it all just seems like another day for a girl who had been imprisoned for the last 14-15 years. I mean Of course why wouldn't it be.
Then The Queen needs to find someone to lead them through the Dark Forest so they get the Huntsman to help them, then he joins with Snow White. So what does the Queen do? She sends more people into the Dark Forest to find them. Wait a minute, didn't she just say she needed someone to guide her men through the Dark Forest and now all of a sudden they can just enter it without any guidance? That makes no sense. I could go on and on. The acting. What acting? There are hardly any scenes between two people where acting is involved it's all just an excuse to get what resembles the plot moving forward there is no character development no motivations other than standard cliched ones. What character development there is hinted at: the Queen's being cursed/blessed by her mother for revenge is intriguing but goes no where, it's just words spoken because they sound interesting. The Huntsman mourning his wife is just the standard token "Let's give him something dark from his past" and goes no where. The scene where the Queen's brother admits to raping the Huntsman's wife was pathetic and stretching. It was just included to make him all the more evil and to give the Huntsman some sort of motivation. Both of these attempts as character development go no where. They are merely just passing attempts to give the movie some form of substance. They piqued my interests but then went no where.
I'm not a big fan of Kirsten Stewart. She seems to have the same whiny expression in about every movie she does and every scene she's in, no matter what kind of emotional state the scene requires. Her face is always one of pouting, confusion, and bewilderment. But even I'll admit they didn't give her much to work with in this movie. She was just required to stand around looking perplexed, flustered, confused, or somewhat angry but then again maybe that's why she was hired. Then that speech she has to use near the end of the movie to rouse the troops was terrible and completely unmoving. Chris Hemsworth was the real star and characteristic person in this movie as the Huntsman. The really sad thing is there's a good movie here wanting to be made.
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