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Kick-a$$ fairy tale which is sharp, edgy, filled with heroics and dirty deeds
I didn't await much from this so-chosen fairy tale story which was first published in 1812. If only the brothers Grimm were alive today to lookout man this updated story line starring the athletic and attractive Gemma Arterton every bit Greta, and her tough as nails diabetic brother Hansel played by versatile actor Jeremy Renner, I think they (the brothers Grimm) would exist so impressed every bit to how the author/managing director Tommy Wirkola brought their story to life (and death to the many witches).
The supporting cast of stars such every bit Famke Janssen (witch Muriel), Pihla Viitala (expert witch Mina), Peter Stormare (Sheriff Berringer), behemothic and lovable troll Edward (Derek Mears), and novice witch hunter in training Ben (Thomas Mann) were all extremely well played.
I loved the darkish firey cinematography, the suspenseful battles betwixt the witch hunters and the witches, and the twists and turns in the storylines and the characters. This was a more than impressive introduction which I hope we will soon be followed up past a sequel also starring Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, Derak Mears, and their witch hunter in training Thomas Mann.
A pleasantly under appreciated adventure/fantasy/action film worthy of a perfect ten out of 10 rating!!!!!
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Surpassed My Low Expectations!
Before viewing this film, I knew information technology was not going to be a masterpiece. I already had incredibly low expectations for it and I idea I was going to hate information technology. Later viewing information technology, I can say it's a pretty bad....donkey film. It'due south not a swell pic, but it'southward ridiculously entertaining and fifty-fifty really funny. There's lots of gore here, so people who love endless CGI blood volition autumn in dearest with this film.
Tommy Wirkola'south film adds some more depth to the classic tale from the Grimm Brothers, Hansel and Gretel. This story explores their developed lives, where of course they would become witch hunters. They unremarkably get the job done, just and then in that location is this witch who believes she is the most powerful of all.
The interim is good and information technology seems like anybody had a boom. Jeremy Renner as Hansel was good and the funniest of the siblings. Gemma Arterton is certainly very sexy as Gretel. Peter Stormare makes for a difficult-nosed chief and Famke Janssen relishes her role every bit the evil witch.
Overall, I must admit that I had a blast with Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. The story is not anywhere to be seen, just I wasn't in the mood for any in-depth story. I merely wanted to see witches dice, and I recall I can say my wish was fulfilled. This is an action-packed horror film that will take you for a thrilling ride. I rate this film 8/10.
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A Great Entertainment
The siblings Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and Gretel (Gemma Arterton) are left lonely in the wood by their male parent and captured by a dark witch in a processed house. However they kill the witch and escape from the spot. Years later, the orphans have become famous witch hunters.
When 11 children get missing in a small village, the Major summons Hansel and Gretel to rescue them, and they salve the red haired Mina (Pihla Viitala) from the local sheriff that wants to burn her accusing Mina of witchcraft. Soon they notice that the Blood Moon will approach in iii days and the powerful dark witch Muriel (Famke Janssen) is the responsible for the abduction of children. She intends to employ the children together with a secret ingredient in a Sabbath to brand the coven of witches protected against the fire. Meanwhile Hansel and Gretel disclose secrets near their parents.
"Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters" is a great entertainment for ordinary viewers like me that like the genre of fantasy merely based on the Metacritic Rating, it is not recommended to intellectuals. The story is very funny and the special furnishings and make-upward are superlative notch. Gemma Arterton is i of the sexiest actresses and it is good to see her again. If the viewer likes this genre, he or she will certainly enjoy "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters". I do not understand why people that like fine art movies spend their fourth dimension watching this blazon of motion picture and writing bad reviews. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "João east Maria: Caçadores de Bruxas" ("John and Mary: Witch Hunters")
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Mindless fun, for meliorate and for worse
Lately we have seen a lot of these fairy tale remakes, where they take a bones fairy tale plot, add together in a lot of CGI, slightly darker temper and some sex and call it a day. I withal prefer the Disney version, cheers very much. At to the lowest degree in those films the story flows smoothly and the characters are not cardboard cutouts. That being said, this particular fairy tale movie was a pleasant surprise. For 1, it didn't try to retell the aforementioned exact story nosotros have grown up with. Rather information technology took the story of Hansel and Gretel and asked the question: "What if they grew up?" I'm totally on lath with that question. It'southward something we've never seen before and frankly information technology's a fascinating idea. Then yeah, color me interested.
The movie itself ends upwardly being pretty much what anyone would expect. I hesitate to call information technology a expert pic, because it has numerous plot holes, nonsensical twists and its characters are somewhat banal and clichéd. On the other hand, information technology has a proficient visual style, its action is very pleasing, if a bit gore-filled (not a bad thing in this instance), the two main actors are actually pretty good in their roles, and as a whole it'south only evidently solid fun. Yeah, information technology's stupid near of the time, but it's fun kind of stupid. The kind where yous're merely able to sit back, enjoy the scenery and express mirth at the jokes.
It likewise needs to be remembered that this was Tommy Wirkola'southward first big budget film. And for a debut motion-picture show, this shows a lot of promise. The fashion is definitely there, every bit is the atmosphere. The story-telling and the grapheme development need some piece of work, but even large name directors struggle with those every now and and so. I'm looking forrard to what this guy will bring the states next.
And that's this picture show. Yeah, it'south 1 of those so bad it'due south skillful films, just I'd still recommend this. The idea alone is worth checking out.
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A ton of stupid fun
I seriously enjoyed this film-- information technology had more gore than Mel Gibson could shake a fist at, some very cute actors, and didn't waste time with excessive back-story and details, and gave me many good laughs.
Its not an intellectually stimulating moving picture... duh. Its fabricated to a hilariously entertaining popcorn flick with over-the-top action and unrealistic weapons that wouldn't have existed given the 'fourth dimension period' this movie seems to be set in. So yous folks out there giving it bad rap for non meeting your standards, calm down. Its clearly not trying to. :).
This motion-picture show's violence reminded me of the Expendables-- but this pic never takes itself too seriously like the other film does... I found this much more than fun to watch.
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The movie knows it's stupid and has fun with it
This is non a quality film and I don't think they fifty-fifty meant information technology to be adept or memorable. If yous watched the trailers and *didn't* look information technology to be terrible, I'd exist very, very surprised. I would never have paid to see this. I merely saw information technology because I got passes to a free advance screening. And it was but as ridiculous as I expected - and I was pretty entertained. We were laughing pretty hard the whole time.
The motion-picture show wasn't trying to have a good plot or a surprise twist. Clocking in at a little over an hour, it could have been flavour finale of a B-form TV series of the same premise. I think pic was only trying to be funny, and I think their jokes worked. Similar how Hansel has a "medical condition" (not spoiling it here). It doesn't work in a physiological sense - simply who cares? It was really funny that they fifty-fifty fabricated that connection!
There was an incredible corporeality of gore in this movie; but I suppose that itself was a joke, given the premise of the movie. Their other jokes relied on anachronisms (weapons, fanboys, criminal offense investigations). Simply they were careful enough that the anachronisms were funny in the context of the earth-edifice instead of being glaring anomalies.
There might be some people complaining well-nigh what an inadequate film this was with respect to plot, but that would be missing the betoken. Don't sentinel this expecting to have abroad anything - it'due south actually only just for the lawls.
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Some Good Moments Simply Non Plenty Energy
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)
** (out of four)
R-rated, gory horror-chance has brother and sisters Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and Gretal (Gemma Arterton) called to a small town to endeavor and locate some children that take been kidnapped by some witches. Before long they realize that a Queen witch (Famke Janssen) has bigger plans that could have a major alter on the world. HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS isn't quite as bad as some are making it out to be but there'south no question that the entire picture but has an uneasy mix of genres that never fully come together and in the end the film just came off as something that didn't know what information technology wanted to be or do. At times there's some campy comedy moments but these aren't good enough to save the picture. At other times we're given a fairly interesting wait at 2 people hunting witches but the film doesn't do too much with this. We're also given a motion-picture show with some extremely graphic gore that comes out of nowhere. I really liked the fact that they went for a R-rating and didn't hold dorsum for a smaller rating but at the same time if you took this away there really wouldn't be much to the movie. The moving-picture show manages to be slightly entertaining because of this type of gore but at the same time I can encounter how it might not sit well with some more sensitive viewers. Some other thing I liked was the actual wait of the witches. The CGI effects were actually quite believable whenever the witches inverse form in their faces. The expect of the major witch was also quite nice and benefited from the strong and fun performance by Janssen who managed to bring a certain sexy nature to the role. Both Renner and Arterton are proficient in their parts but the screenplay really makes both characters quite boring and uninteresting. The supporting players here are usually much better and the movie probably would have benefited having them in it more. This includes an obsessed fan of the duo as well as an evil sheriff. Another trouble with the film is that you just never actually get involved with anything going on. It looks nice and some of the activity scenes are put together nicely just there's but no real energy that brings yous into the film.
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A Nutshell Review: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
It's a niggling foreign why this film wasn't given avant-garde press previews in the U.s.a., and for territories like ours there was a review embargo to comply with, signalling the lack of confidence the filmmakers and distributors have on this movie update of the Hansel and Gretel storyline. Perhaps they're taking a leaf out of recent updates to fairy tales such equally the two Snowfall White movies, and Red Riding Hood, that they desire to exist a fleck deaf to criticisms, and to permit audiences to judge instead. Just Hansel and Gretel as witch hunters followed the mold of Blade, and proved to be quite the mass market entertainer, with no pretences in wanting to be more than.
Written and directed past Norwegian Tommy Wirkola, this story had all the right ingredients for the kind of film it wanted to be, taking the familiar folk lore, and putting a creative, not necessarily new, spin on it. We run across how the ii kids get brought out to the forest, but this time in that location isn't a trail of crumbs to follow home. The iconic firm of staff of life and sweets, and the wicked witch who wants to fatten Hansel as food subsequently on are all included, as do their defeat of the witch past burning her live in the stove. This forms the prologue, and the What If scenario that Hansel and Gretel were to build on their initial success, and grade a career out of hunting, and destroying witches anywhere, bounty hunter style.
As y'all would already accept seen in the trailer, this is only one of their adventures shown in helping a village bargain with the menace of the witch Muriel (Famke Janssen), who together with her posse of agreeing witches accept kidnapped children in preparation of a ritual to be performed nether the blood moon. And there's no other better for the job than for Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and Gretel (Gemma Arterton), engaged past the mayor thanks to the widespread news of their successful witch hunting exploits played over the opening credits. The residue of the story is nothing but set action slice after set action piece, paced frantically without whatsoever pause longer than necessary, with a story that ties it all in to their origins, and going full circle.
clocking in at just nether xc minutes, the movie has two surprise acts and characters all-time kept nether wraps, one to reverse the mantra that the witch hunters adopt to their methods, and the other a fine character introduced that shed clues to their origin story. Jeremy Renner continues in his sharing of the limelight in roles he had chosen of late, preferring to be the team player from the Incommunicable Mission Force to the Avengers, and continues as i half of the brother-sister team. Gemma Arterton is mayhap best known for her role as the Bond girl in Breakthrough of Solace, with her dramatic roles having never fabricated it here. And having another Bond girl in Famke Janssen in yet another villainous role also helped, although every character in this moving picture is pretty i dimensional.
But this is an action-take a chance taking a well known fairy tale and giving it a license to thrill with blood and gore. While almost of the effects are CG laden, it doesn't flinch from wanting to showcase burning at the stakes and various forms of dismemberment and beheadings that increases its body count in very gory terms. It's a story about witch hunting in a fantasy setting, and it exploits this setting perfectly. A definite recommend for any action junkie.
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Leave the kids at abode for this one – this revisionist have on the classic fairy tale is an entertaining blend of horror and sense of humour that is as gory as it is vulgar
What you lot may or may not remember about the Brothers Grimm' story is over and done with in the first ten minutes of writer-managing director Tommy Wirkola'southward revisionist handling of the classic tale, which basically imagines what happens after the happily e'er afterward. And and so Wirkola fast- forwards the story many years later, where he would like u.s.a. to believe that Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and Gretel (Gemma Arterton) have institute their calling as witch hunters, travelling effectually from village to village killing the evil ones who kidnap children and rescuing their abductees in the process.
1 particular such mission brings them to the town of Augsburg, where a cute blonde-haired woman named Mina (Pihla Viitala) is due to be drowned in front of an angry crowd by the shifty Sheriff Berringer (Peter Stormare). The Mayor (Rainer Bock) is not so fast to pronounce judgment on her for the spate of disappearances, and has hired Hansel and Gretel to get to the bottom of it. Seeing no visible signs of sorcery on her, Hansel and Gretel gratis her, inadvertently setting themselves on a collision course with the Sheriff.
But the biting Sheriff and his band of hunters are the least of their problems – indeed, their almost pressing concern is the Grandmother Witch Muriel (Famke Janssen) and her hench-women, who have been keeping the children they take kidnapped locked up in expect for a much more sinister plot to brand them even more than powerful. Of course, as narrative dictates, Muriel'southward plan would have something to do with Hansel and Gretel's own past, every bit well as their extraordinary ability to be allowed from the spells of witches.
Savvy viewers will be able to spot the connection in one case the clues are laid, and so don't look a revelatory surprise at the end. That doesn't mean however that this reimagination is anticipated; instead, Wirkola keeps you riveted with a surprisingly constructive blend of horror and hilarity often within the very aforementioned scene. Case in point? Just earlier she forces someone to turn a shotgun on himself and splatter his brains onto the wall, Muriel comments how the room they are in looks somehow drab and could practise with some colour.
That same irreverence pervades the entire movie, which shouldn't come up as a surprise if you lot paid attending to the opening credits and spotted Will Ferrell and Adam McKay as producers of the picture. Their make of rude cheeky humour is very much alive in Wirkola's showtime English-linguistic communication characteristic, who had demonstrated through his debut film lampooning Quentin Tarantino – Impale Buljo – that he is perfectly in tune with their sensibilities. Just Wirkola too brings his eye for gore – seen in his sophomore film 'Dead Snow' – to this film, and then be prepared for exploding flesh, crushed skulls and some peculiarly nasty decapitations that is good reason why this grown-up version of Hansel and Gretel does not carry a kid-friendly rating.
Amid the gore and adult sense of humor, Renner and Arterton unfortunately are left with paper-thin characters. While Renner pretty much looks bleak throughout the motion-picture show, Arterton seems adamant to have fun with her ass-boot female person heroine of a role, and her portrayal of Gretel resembles a Lara Croft for the medieval ages. The scene-stealer yet is Janssen, the quondam Bond villain over again relishing the opportunity to play confronting blazon as the villain and putting in a deliciously over- the-meridian performance as Muriel. Other supporting actors don't make much of an impression – including Thomas Mann, a firm Hansel and Gretel devotee who gets some laughs from his fanboy behaviour and eventually sees his wish come up true to be a witch hunter like his heroes.
And we suspect, how much y'all will end up enjoying this new twist to the classic fairy tale volition too depend on your expectations. Compared to the recent spate of fairytale-inspired Hollywood movies similar 'Red Riding Hood' or 'Snow White and the Huntsman', it veers most far off from its source material to tell an entirely different story. The outcome of that novelty is something bloody all right, that can as well testify to exist encarmine good fun if yous're looking for an adult-oriented alloy of action, risk, fantasy, horror and comedy. It might not sound intuitive, only this fairy tale is best enjoyed without the kids.
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Renner and Arterton: Killer Combination!
I couldn't believe my optics when I first saw the poster for "Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters" because information technology really puts together my two favorite electric current movie stars, Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton! I liked Gothic interpretations of fairy tales similar "Snowfall White and the Huntsman". And I too liked the "supernaturalization" of historical figures like "Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter" a lot. This film seems to be a cross of those ii types, and so is ane film I made sure I would lookout man this once information technology opened.
Hansel and Gretel starts as we all know them from the fairy tale, children left by their parents in the woods. They were lured by a house fabricated of processed, and was captured past the wicked witch who lived within. We all know how the tale ends, when Hansel and Gretel push the witch into the oven. But that was just the beginning of the movie, for that was when this brother-sister team launch their career as mercenary witch hunters. When a mysterious series of missing children terrorizes a small town, its mayor hires Hansel and Gretel to wait for the witches responsible and kill them.
That was one shallow story line I know, but I actually enjoyed myself while watching this motion-picture show. Yes, the gore cistron was really loftier, but everything appeared to be washed with tongue strictly in cheek. The actors Renner and Arteron are unquestionable bad-ass! They fit the titular roles very well. You will see a new, more than interesting "Edward" here. The CG and production design were quite good and imaginative. It was fun to spot traditional witch lore in the scenes, even as they took liberties to invent their ain lore.
As I mentioned, the movie does not shy from bloody violence, as the envelope is pushed to graphically show various mechanisms of decease, from crushing to exploding - shut-up! There was a brief scene of a nude hamlet beauty Mina (Pihla Viitala) as she seduces Hansel. There were even unexpected modern-day swear words during the witch battles. With all of these scenes, I do non really know how information technology got a PG-xiii rating in this country! Anyway, despite and maybe because of all these surprises, I found the whole pic a lot of grown-up fun, a very entertaining 1 and half hours.
Afterward the film, I found out that the director was Tommy Wirkola, the same guy who directed the Norwegian Nazi zombies in the snowfall movie "Dead Snowfall." So that is why his strange Tarantino-esque sense of humor is all over this film. I am a fan! I will be awaiting his next project. Even so, for all the fun I had watching this film though, I retrieve they should be happy with what they have now. I think a H&G sequel would already be pushing their luck.
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Everyone Calm Down!!
In my opinion this is the blazon of movie to see if: 1)You love and support Jeremy Renner 2)You're in a mood to encounter cool simply not overly flashy furnishings 3)Love for night fairy tales 4)Awesome brand upwardly and costumes (the witches were very VERY well put together) 5)Just an all around chill movie with gore violence and cool effects
Don't see it if: 1)y'all expect loftier quality interim two)Over the peak graphics and furnishings 3)Complex plot line 4)Extremely witty script
Because Jeremy Renner was in big time movies, people are over analyzing this one. It'southward suppose to be fun with a hint of nighttime, and entertaining. I was very entertained. I as well loved how it was only 88 minutes versus the ii-3 hour movies that take been coming out. I appreciated the toughness of Gemma in the film and Famke as head witch was genius. Overall information technology served it's purpose.
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This was just spectacular...
Now, why was I nether the impression that this would exist some other of those teenage lovefest movies? It couldn't have been further from the truth. Perhaps that impression came from such movies such as "Twilight" and "Cherry Riding Hood".
But "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters" turned out to be somewhat of a bloody and gory activity / horror movie. And information technology was actually a nifty combination that worked out quite well. A very unlike and interesting take on a famous fairytale.
The story is nearly young Hansel and Gretel who are left in the woods, where they come upon a house made of candy. They are captured past the witch within and fed processed to fatten them up. But they end upwardly shoving the witch into the oven and killing her. Correct, we all know (or should know) this fairytale. Even so, this movie deals with the siblings after they grew up and became deadly witch hunters.
Correct from the very beginning at that place was adrenaline and action in the flick, and I volition say that it actually never slowed downward. The motion-picture show only kept going on straight alee like a rampant freight train.
What actually impressed me in the movie was the effects and the make-up. That was just off the charts. The witches had so many interesting and nice details that the movie should be watched more than once to take it all in. At that place was just something greatly dark and ghastly about them, and information technology worked out so well. It was a thrill and a pleasure to witness the make-up and effects of the movie.
Yet, the moving picture wasn't all about the effects and make-up. The effort and details in the costumes and props as well was just heed-boggling. The whole village really looked real and seemed like something right out of the middle ages.
Well, "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters" isn't all but great stuff, there were parts which I didn't actually fathom or could fully wrap my caput around. First of all, the detail time in which the movie is set, I don't really think that the F-discussion was around, merely oddly enough information technology was existence thrown around quite a lot, and that really brought down the dialogue in the picture a notch. It was inappropriate and quite unnecessary with all that vulgarity and profanity. The usage of the F-word and the MF-give-and-take was really inappropriate.
Secondly, I was a bit at a loss about the costume worn by Hansel. It seemed a bit out of the historic period in which the moving-picture show was set likewise. It was just a bit overdone and seemed like they had plant it lying around discarded on a "Matrix" fix. It did expect great though, it just wasn't fully advisable or matching to the historic period of the flick.
Finally, the weaponry - well, don't get me wrong, because it was interesting and spectacular to wait at. Merely it seemed a piddling chip too advanced for the historic period. Yep, I know, this is a fantasy movie, but still... Why would the weaponry applied science have progressed that much, merely the rest of the world was still stuck in the middle ages? It was a little bit strange. The weapons were cool to look at and were keen in employ on the screen, just just a tad out of place.
Every bit for the cast in the movie, and then I will say that they had put together a good ensemble of people. But it was without a doubt Famke Janssen (playing Muriel) who stole the evidence and totally carried the flick.
"Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters" is an action-packed and adrenaline-filled action / horror picture show, and it was a real treat to spotter, both story-wise and effects-wise.
And on a final notation, then this picture confirmed my suspicion, Edward is a troll!
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I Love This Film
It seems critics nowadays just want serious movies that last hours on end, they don't want action or 3D, they only desire to mind to dialogue driven movies that frankly don't go anywhere heart pumping or exciting. Information technology'south a real shame when critics tin't enjoy watching two of the coolest, freshest actors totally ripping the guts out of evil witches in spectacularly gory style. We need more than movies like this, films that don't accept themselves seriously and just aim for all out entertainment. Fast paced, sharp and ferociously violent, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters is easily down the nearly fun and wildly over the superlative adventure of 2013, it will exist difficult to beat. The story is played out fast and loose, merely similar the 3D and special effects which are insanely brilliant, the action is explosive but the all-time feature is the acting. Jeremy Renner is very entertaining, his humour is very blunt and deadpan and it's a alter from his roles in Avengers, Bourne & Mission Impossible. Gemma Arterton is very cool, she takes a whole lot of punches and she fights back with brute forcefulness, and well-nigh of the bad-ass i liners come from her, "Let the girl go, or I'm gonna blow y'all sheriff brains all over these hillbillies". It has to be said though, that Famke Janssen is the best, yous tin can tell she is having a blast playing the evil witch Muriel, whenever she comes on screen you tin't help but smile, and there's a sense of unpredictability with her grapheme, who knows what she will do side by side?! Information technology's echo viewing material and a heck of a blast and at that place is never a dull moment, just all out action, fun twists and a whole lot of laughter.
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Good direct-forward entertainment packed with activity.
It is a pretty direct-frontwards activeness flick. With the short runtime of 1 hour and 28 minutes, you can look this to move briskly and to be packed with a lot of action.
The story: The picture show starts with the immature Hansel and Gretel losing their parents. They are presently picked by a witch to exist food. They manage to escape and burn the witch alive and that's how they become witch hunter. Cue to the opening credit. The next scene shows them saving an innocent adult female whom is defendant of being a witch. And from at that place, the action keeps going. At that place are some slight twists about the innocent woman and Hansel and Gretel's parents. Other than that, information technology is purely straight-forward for a skillful thing. The activeness scenes are not bad just they are more gritty than fantastical. Music wise is quite alright with Han Zimmer interim equally the music supervisor.
3D: It is okay. As many of the scenes take identify at night, the 3D effect dampens. Information technology becomes more like harder to meet. But when it comes to explosions, blood splatters and activeness, it is gimmicky with objects flying to your face. Other than that, the 3D is not really recommended unless y'all have some spare money.
Overall: It is not bad for the month of January. Sure, there is a great potential that the movie never reach simply Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters won't disappoint if you want a skillful entertainment packed with action. Next fairy tale flick is Jack the Giant Slayer in Feb.
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Encarmine, night, tongue in cheek fun!
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I wasn't expecting anything deep or insightful or thought provoking when I went to see this. I was expecting a fantasy/horror movie with dark humor where I could turn off my brain and just enjoy the ride and that was pretty much what I got. I really enjoyed it. Information technology was fun and funny and information technology was fairly obvious that their tongues were firmly in their cheeks when they made this. I enjoyed the 'Eye Ages meets Steampunk' aspect and idea it was a overnice impact that Hansel actually developed the carbohydrate sickness - a.k.a. diabetes - from being forced to eat all that candy as a kid.
I enjoyed the brother/sister vibe betwixt the two. You don't see a great many brother/sister action duos. At least, none come up immediately to mind. It'south always buddies/cops or soldiers and if there is a male/female pairing it's usually romantic. To accept the protagonists exist siblings was a refreshing twist. They both knew the other could accept care of themselves but were notwithstanding protective and concerned for each other.
And as for taking care of themselves, hunting witches was never shown as easy. They each got their asses handed to them on numerous occasions and in the scene where we see Hansel shirtless, his body is covered in scars, both onetime and new.
The only complaint I accept is that it wasn't long plenty. Information technology's run time is just short of 90 minutes and so they had ample room to aggrandize a few scenes - or even add new ones - to flesh out the character evolution a piddling.
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A silly, enjoyable run through the wood
I didn't actually fancy this picture show, information technology looked a bit empty-headed. Well it is but what it does it does very well.
Hansel and Gretel mean business this time and charge around the countryside sticking information technology to the witches. The action is fast moving and exhilarating, lots of attention has been paid to the setting and scenery.
The plot however is very choppy. People stroll into the story then wander out, or pop up in the centre of swamps and spill their hearts out to the characters to move the scene forth or plug a gaping plot hole.
The reason the plot is and then desultory is the film weighs in under the 90 minute mark which is a massive feat for a modern picture.
The women are bonny, the medieval James Bond weaponry is clever, the different breeds of witches exotic and interesting.
The violence is gratuitous only not graphic, peoples heads explode into crimson mist or go in that location artillery torn off but in a very comic book manner. A woman gets punched in the confront nearly every 7 minutes just they are always directly back on their feet with perfect pilus and make-upward.
A bit of a silly, Buffyesque romp, I enjoyed it.
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Guillermo Del Toro is a shoe-in for this sort of films...
But this film is not quite every bit skilful as Hellboy. Of course whatsoever child or grown-up knows the classic tale of Hansel and Gretel by the Brothers Grimm. It is about a brother and sister(Hansel and Gretel) abandoned deep within the forest by their male parent who follows every command of their newly acquired evil stepmother. Hansel lays a trail of white pebbles during the trip.
Later on their parents abandon them, the children wait for the moon to rise and then they follow the pebbles back home. They return home safely, much to their stepmother's horror. Once again provisions become deficient, and the stepmother angrily orders her husband to take the children further into the woods and leave them at that place to die. Hansel and Gretel effort to gather more than pebbles, only find the doors locked and find it impossible to escape from their parents' house.
The following morning, the family treks into the wood. Hansel takes a slice of staff of life and leaves a trail of staff of life crumbs to follow home. However, after they are once again abandoned, the children notice that birds have eaten the crumbs and they are lost in the woods.
The children try to find a way out, simply stumble across a witches hut made out of every sort of sweet things imaginable: cakes, cookies, carbohydrate candy, chocolate, cream etc., etc. The children brainstorm to consume parts of the business firm when the door to the house opens and out pops an old adult female who invites them in and sets before them a scrumptious banquet. She is actually an evil witch who uses the business firm to lure unsuspecting children on whom she feasts.
Her program was to fatten Hansel and then to swallow him. So after the children accept eaten, she immediately puts Hansel in muzzle and locks information technology. She then orders Gretel to do all sorts of chores in the house, of which the most important was to feed Hansel. As the days passed the witch asked Hansel to stick out his finger which she feels to meet if he is fatty plenty to exist cooked and eaten. But Hansel cleverly offers a os he found in the cage (presumably a bone from the witch's previous captive) and the witch feels it, thinking it is his finger. Due to her blindness, she is fooled into thinking Hansel is still too sparse to consume. After weeks of this, the witch grows impatient and decides to eat Hansel, "be he fat or lean." She prepares the oven for Hansel, just decides she is hungry enough to eat Gretel, too. She coaxes Gretel to open the oven and prods her to lean over in front of it to see if the burn is hot enough. Gretel, sensing the witch'due south intent, pretends she does not understand what she ways. Infuriated, the witch demonstrates, and Gretel instantly shoves the witch into the oven and slams and bolts the door shut, leaving "The ungodly witch to be burned to ashes", with the witch screaming in pain until she dies. Gretel frees Hansel from the cage, and the pair discover a vase full of treasure and precious stones. Putting the jewels into their article of clothing, the children set up off for home. A swan ferries them across an surface area of water, and at abode they find but their father; his married woman died from unknown causes. Their male parent had spent all his days lamenting the loss of his children, and is delighted to see them safe and sound. With the witch's wealth, they all live happily ever after.
Okay on to THIS Pic: After destroying the witch, Hansel and Gretel become famed compensation hunters dedicated to mercilessly eradicating witches, slaying over six hundred of them. Their work is relatively easy because, for an unknown reason, they are immune to spells and curses. Hansel, however, is diabetic as a upshot of his ordeal and needs to take a regular shot of insulin every few hours.
1 twenty-four hours, in the town of Augsburg, Hansel and Gretel prevent Sheriff Berringer from executing Mina, a young woman accused of witchcraft. Mayor Englemann has hired the siblings to find and rescue several children abducted by witches.
Lookout this film to find out what happens next! This film is fasted paced with graphic action scenes and gore and has some nudity. Therefor I wouldn't recommend this moving picture for children nether xiii years.
Notable Stars: Famke Jannsen(Deep Rising,X-Men Trilogy, Goldeneye, Lord Of Illusions), Peter Stormare(Fargo, 8mm, Lockout) and Jeremy Renner (Dahmer(MUST Encounter Moving picture!) The Avengers)).
Similar films: Hocus Pocus (1993), Warlock(1989).
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Children's Dreams
tedg 28 February 2015
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It has been some time since I was exposed to how these things piece of work. A clever writer can start with annihilation and extend it toward a known formula so that it animates that formula with a new disguise. In this earth, the writers are witches.
So, i can well imagine the claiming here: target the currently popular formula: brash small group battles (with fists and old fashioned weapons) an organized army of evil. Ballast it in something known that already connects with dreams and inner fears. Implement information technology with noise and bravado.
The just thing of interest here is how clever were the writers.
Adept witch with cherry-red hair and nudity, and who falls (only not permanently) with the guy hero? Cheque.
A complicated, unresolved issue with parents? Bank check.
Lots of story mechanics about collaborating, trust and friendship, but which preserves the private's merits to valor? Check, whether you are a teen guy or girl.
Things gear up at the end for a franchise? Of class.
I'd say the witches won this circular.
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Enough of Fun in the Mix of Horror and Action Genres
Hansel and Gretel (Jeremy Renner and Gemma Atherton) are bounty hunters who track and kill witches all over the world. Equally the fabled Blood Moon approaches, the siblings encounter a new form of evil that might concur a secret to their past.
Going into this, I was not expecting a expert motion-picture show or a bad i, only just your typical activeness film (admitting with a fairy tale twist). And so I noticed it was directed by Tommy Wirkola, the wonderful human being who brought the earth "Dead Snowfall". My expectations and hopes went up a notch... and were fulfilled.
Patently the moving-picture show has mixed reviews from critics just positive reviews from the horror community (despite not necessarily being a horror film). I can see why. What looks like an action picture on the surface is just an alibi for some nighttime humour and endless gallons of claret.
My only peeve was the utilize of CGI, simply it was comforting to know that Wirkola fought against the CGI and used practical effects wherever possible. I wish he had gotten a few more than traditional methods in there, but I suppose when you lot have a budget big enough you have to cater to some folks...
I enthusiastically liked this film and hope the sequel is able to match its style and tone.
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A truly grim fairy tale ...
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Take a ridiculous premise – based loosely on a Grimm fairy tale – so-so special effects and deplorable acting and add together not-existent direction, besides every bit a disruptive time-line and substandard 3D effects, and and so sprinkle in few unnecessary "F" bombs and what do you become? A profoundly pathetic and pointless endeavour entitled "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters," a motion picture so bad in its design, development and execution that a Roget's Thesaurus is needed just to accurately describe how horrible and with as much variety as possible the feel of watching it was.
Written with a crayon and directed with a circus mallet past Tony Wirkola ("Dead Snow"), this film tries to exist a "Blood-red Riding Hood" meets "Snow White and the Huntsman" meets "The Brothers Grimm" meets the Evil Dead trilogy, only succeeds merely in overlapping itself in a most embarrassing bog of amateurish inanity despite a nigh merciful running time of simply 88 minutes (and you idea "The Hobbit" seemed long-winded).
Everyone has obviously read (or has been read) the story of how the wicked stepmother forced the meek begetter to take young Hansel and Gretel into the woods where they discovered a life-size gingerbread house and the evil witch that lived there. The crone and so tried to eat the boy, but the kids outwit her and she ends up broiled to a well-baked in her own oven.
This pic begins with pretty much the same tale, just we're now told (through a serial of what looks like medieval paper clippings) that the siblings accept grown upwardly and accept become bounty hunters, taking on – and totally destroying – witch after cackling witch. Now, years afterward, they testify up at a boondocks where xi children take been of a sudden taken abroad.
A diabetic (yeah, all that candy, he has the "carbohydrate disease") Hansel, played by Jeremy Renner ("The Bourne Legacy," "The Avengers") and a wise-cracking Gretel (Gemma Arterton, "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time"), are hired by the milquetoast mayor (Rainer Bock), but detested past Ausberg's sheriff (Peter Stormare, "The Final Stand up" and the but graphic symbol with any real sense), and manage to save an defendant sorceress, Mina (Pihla Viitala, a series of Finnish films and Idiot box serial no one has heard of), and practise a little detective work - very niggling.
They soon discover that there is a bad moon ascent – really a "blood moon" – that can make witches inflammable (although since they are dispatched here in other various ways, it's not much of a defence force). This event manifestly takes identify once every few years or so and causes the witches to gather together in what looks similar a depression-rent Comic-Con.
In the course of their investigations, Hans and sis are as well easily able to destroy the ugly supernatural entities with fiddling or no attempt, thanks to superior weapons and clever patter that will not exist for at to the lowest degree some other 700 years.
Shotguns, automatic pistols, hand grenades, Gattling guns and a crossbow that fires hundreds of arrows per minute - and in all directions - seemingly came from nowhere while characters use words like "hillbilly," "weird," "awesome" and the same "F" bombs.
The dialogue was patently stolen from some other Center Historic period dud from a few years dorsum, "Your Highness," although I NEVER thought I would miss the subtle and nuanced acting abilities of Danny McBride. Compared to this script ("The only good witch is a expressionless witch"), that movie seems like Shakespeare.
And, if Hansel and Gretel are cracking plenty, they are "ably" assisted by Ben (Thomas Mann, who appears every bit if he failed an audition to be the fifth fellow member of the "Large Bang Theory" gang), besides as a giant troll who looks like a cross between Andre the Giant and Luis Guzman. They seem invincible (despite the inclusion of Thomas Mann). However, the group before long runs into a "super" witch, Muriel (Famke Janssen, "Taken ii"), and the tables are of a sudden turned.
Is in that location really a point in my continuing to depict the plot of this pointless endeavor? Do nosotros care that Hansel'southward hatred of witches borders on the sociopathic and makes him expect similar an Former World version of a red-necked Southern bigot during the Civil Rights era? Practice we care that Gretel discovers a terrible secret about her own mother as well as herself? Do nosotros intendance that Hansel isn't a very adept swimmer? Practise we care about Any of this ludicrous nonsense? The answer is a resounding and unequivocal "no," my friends.
Had whatsoever of the bones elements of filmcraft (interim, direction, story) been even slightly evident here, I could dismiss this moving picture'southward faults as just a terribly mediocre January release and been done with information technology. There are then many glaringly awful things about this motion picture, however, that my obligation as a critic – and a human being existence - behooves me to warn the paying public to avoid this travesty at all costs.
Then, with an extra $three to $five being charged for viewing in 3D, the general public is existence taken for a ride in this department, besides, considering this technology adds nix to the experience considering mainly the movie is so night, drab and depressing no one can tell what is going on, anyhow.
This is particularly proved by the final battle, which is a confusing, obscured mish-mosh of people and things beingness tossed virtually with petty or no audition comprehension or even the slightest business concern for anyone or anything by that point.
Later on a very successful flick run, including a pair of Academy Honour-nominated performances, it may have been time for Renner to suffer a slight career letdown - it'southward just a shame all of the states had to witness it.
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I loved this picture show!
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More often than not I was interested in this movie knowing Tommy Wirkola directed it because I loved very much his Dead Snow, and it shows.
It's stylish, dark, suspenseful, moderately gory, fast-paced and mesmerizing!
I really can't recall enjoying another fairy tale this much.
Finally a breath of fresh air.
Dandy management, bang-up writing, dandy interim, great everything! The 3D rocked this fourth dimension. I'll definitely go and see it again and will exist looking frontward to the Blu Ray.
And Gemma Arterton is simply a goddess.
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Best movie of the year so far!
I don't know what people went in expecting. But my expectations were in a higher place boilerplate and I got more than than I had hoped for. it's not a perfect motion-picture show by any means but delivers on what the title promises. information technology'southward a fun, gory, silly fantasy horror movie. The film centers on the archetype story of Hansel and Gretel and picks up after that tale as they are now a blood brother and sister team of bad ass witch hunters. They are hired past a boondocks because children take been taken and come upon a devilish plot that is surprisingly unique. I'm not certain what all the bad buzz is about there is a fare amount of development for a film of this kind. And most of all it'southward but fun. Information technology's a quick flick at 88 mins. Then it doesn't over stay it'south welcomes Jeremy Renner and Gemma Armeton (better than she's ever been) take a decent amount of chemical science and deliver raunchy but fun dialogue with a sarcastic pizazz. Famke Janseen hams it upwards as the grand witch in her best role in a while, The fight scenes are well choreographed and the direction is promising from Tommy Wirkola of the awesomely fun Dead Snow. Sure it could have been a bit more fleshed out and there is a bit too much reliance on the f bomb as a joke but it works. Most of all the film possesses a nighttime kinetic free energy that doesn't shy away from the gooey dark stuff which is actually commendable from a major studio considering how much genre films accept get annoyingly censored. All in all a peachy fourth dimension and leaves it open for sequels of which I hope they volition make. 3.5/5
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Whoever idea witch hunting could be fun!
Witches beware considering hell hath no fury like a pair of siblings out for some supernatural blood. At present, anybody pretty much knew the story of ii kids who escape the wrath of a cannibal witch living in a candy house in the middle of the woods, but what happens after that is revealed in this picture: Hansel and Gretel become witch hunters. Heh, as if Red Riding Hood meeting werewolves wasn't crazy plenty.
So the plot goes that after years of hunting witches, the title characters run across a town and get hired by the local mayor to take of a strange matter of witches, led by the wicked grand witch Muriel, kidnapping children for a sinister purpose. Every bit Hansel and Gretel soon learn that this is no ordinary example of a witch infestation, tin can a night underground from their past prove to be their conservancy or their undoing?
Right from the beginning, the two protagonists are likable too equally very tough. They actually do act like brother and sister, having a good time while having the occasional disagreement. The weapons they use are insane and the activity scenes are a load of fun, fast-paced and lots if gore and destruction. The music fits very well likewise, complementing a lot of the action that goes on. The witch Muriel is really a good villain, enjoying every little evil deed she pulls off and seriously messing with our heroes. Throw in a little humor, a couple of dainty twists, and excellent special effects (from the CG to the monstrous design of the witches) and you have one fun fairy tale roller coaster ride.
Definitely one of the improve reinterpretations of classic fairy tales out there that I have seen and worth a watch, so bank check it out! Merely don't bring whatsoever little kids into this one.
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Entirely unwieldy
HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS is an entirely unwieldy comic volume-style flick that sees the fairy-tale characters reinvented equally VAN HELSING-style ass-kickers who hunt down and impale witches in diverse gory means. The film has the same bright, fantastic look as the likes of other contempo fare such equally Crimson RIDING HOOD and it proves to be an entirely superficial adventure, and also one that's completely unwieldy.
First of all, the story is all over the place. Our heroes are smart asses throughout, happy dishing out one liners but struggling when they're required to provide anything more that. The sub-plot involving their dorsum story is a non-starter, as is the whole 'witch conspiracy' matter. Attempts to necktie the story in to existent-life witch cases like the infamous Salem trials are negated by the whole steampunk technology vibe going on; realistic this ain't.
So, what does the film take to recommend it? A ton of CGI-heavy activeness, that's what, which is neither here nor there actually. A lot of it is over choreographed and information technology's occasionally a job to sit through, particularly in that overlong and repetitive final fight scene. I hated how characters seem to exist randomly indestructible, like Jeremy Renner who's stabbed twice in the tummy at ane point simply never to mention it again! Gemma Arterton is advertised equally a tough ass-boot heroine but turns out to be a mere damsel in distress, requiring rescue over and over again. The less said about Famke Janssen'south villain, the better. I don't know who gives the worst performance as a witch in 2013; information technology'southward either her or Emma Thompson in Beautiful CREATURES.
The one matter the film has going for it is the bloodshed; this is R-rated produce so nosotros become to encounter various characters killed in various bloody ways. In that location seems to exist an emphasis on people exploding which is always skilful fun, and the introduction of a giant troll character into the storyline is an intriguing ane. Hints at an incestuous sub-plot betwixt the siblings are interesting even though they eventually go nowhere, and the picture show ends upward petering out completely at the end. HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS is a mess, yes, but one that's not totally without merit for those who love their B-movies.
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Quite Entertaining 6/10
Review: I quite enjoyed this movie which is total of action and a decent storyline. All of the actors play at that place part well and I liked the chemical science between Hansel and Gretel who were a good choice by the director. There is some good CGI throughout the movie and some of the gadgets that are used were impressive. Information technology does seem a bit short and so I wouldn't be surprised if at that place isn't a couple more to come up. It isn't a all out archetype because in that location are quite a few witch movies out lately, but information technology does have something for everyone. I didn't follow all of the hype when the movie first came out, which was why I enjoyed it even more. Enjoyable!
Circular-Upwards: Right at this moment, Jeremy Renner should be the biggest affair on the planet because he has played role in some of the biggest franchises. Taking the lead in the Bourne series and starring every bit Hawkeye in the Avengers franchise, his career seemed very promising, just he is still not a household name. He fifty-fifty starred in the Mission Impossible series but I don't think that he was taken seriously until he starred in the Hurt Locker which was popular in the movie world. The question is, does he have what it takes to become the next Tom Cruise? Directors, obviously think that he does but I am yet to encounter anything spectacular from him. Gemma Arterton has also been given some top course roles such as the Quatom of Solace and Clash Of The Titans, just she also doesn't really seem to have a big range. Both actors worked well together in this motion picture, which volition make a great franchise if they don't mess it upwardly like Superman.
Budget: $50million Worldwide Gross: $226million
I recommend this picture show to people who are into at that place witch hunting movie which are full of activeness. 6/ten
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