An average movie

I wasn't really eager to check this right now but Nick, my step-son, bought the DVD so I still ended up watching it. Honestly, I really had a hard time to care about the whole thing and I was rather constantly bored. Basically, it follows this new trend of modernizing a very old tale but the end-result was not really impressive. First of all, they decided to give the huntsman a bigger role but, as a result, the plot was pretty much over-crowded since you had Snow White, the huntsman but also the prince and the dwarves who all popped up rather randomly. Then, you had the matter of the casting. First of all, Charlize Theron was just brilliant and completely upstaged everyone else involved. Chris Hemsworth was a sound choice and gave a decent performance and it was nice to have some familiar faces to portray the dwarves even if they didn't have much to do. And, of course, you had Kristen Stewart who played the title character. I understand that they wanted to go for something else than the classical look and, since Stewart is one of the most recognizable young actresses nowadays, it sounded once again like a sound choice. Still, I think she was miscast. I mean, Snow White is supposed to be the fairest of the land and Stewart who is quite charming just didn't fit this description. Even later on as a bad-ass Joan of Arc like warrior, she was still not convincing. Still, I guess it was visually appealing with some interesting special effects but it was still not grim enough to make it really interesting or stand out. To conclude, I think I'm being really generous with my rating here but I guess it is still worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

6/10