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Rating of
1.5/4
No longer a children's tale is this gory splash !
sreekirch - wrote on 06/19/2013
Gone are the days where children used to be in touch with H and G who fight witches and become heroes of the day. Now this era poses novelty. They are grown up and they use gigantic guns to take down the deadly witches. Frank Wirkola (TV series director) has taken up the Hansel and Gretel in a different way. He uses the premise of the original story for first few minutes and helps them grow big and take down the deadly witches one by one. Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and Gretel (Gemma Arterton) are siblings in the plot, (does sounds awkward). They use the map, take down the deadly witches. But the stronger witch defeats them and decides to trap 12 children to work on a curse that might stop them from trouble. Now both Renner and Arterton are lost. One finds the white lady he saves at first …
Rating of
3/4
A Fun Action Flick
Looneymanthegreat - wrote on 04/25/2013
I give up. For years now I’ve tried to really think about each and every movie I see and really analyze what is good and/or bad about them, but half the time my conclusions seem to be different from everyone else’s. I though The Master was the best flick of 2012; It wasn’t nominated for best picture, I Thought Argo was overrated; It won best picture and I though The Last Stand was the best action movie I’d seen in a while; it flopped. Now here I am giving Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, a movie that currently has 15% on Rotten Tomatoes, a good review; all attempts to conform have pretty much been dropped.
I just don’t understand what everyone hates about this movie. I think the action scenes were fun, I thought the dark-age steam punk world they created was unique …
Rating of
2.5/4
Blood, guts, and brains!
MovieAddict - wrote on 03/07/2013
This movie is an interesting take on the Hansel and Gretel fairy tale with the two adorable little kids whose father brought them to the dark forest and left them. They wander into the forest until they come upon a cottage made of candy in the woods. There's an evil witch there who tries to fatten up Hansel and makes Gretel a slave but they get the better of her and push the witch into an oven, establishing that fire is the greatest weakness of witches. Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and Gretel (Gemma Arterton) grow up to become witch hunters with an arsenal of exotic weapons. (pretty nifty weapons given that it's the middle ages)
Eventually they are hired by the mayor of the town who recruits them to investigate recent high witch activities in the area whereupon they save a young woman from …
Rating of
2/4
lastonetoleave - wrote on 01/25/2013
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) It’s been fifteen years since Hansel and Gretel escaped from the blind witch’s gingerbread house, and now Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and his sister, Gretel (Gemma Arterton), dedicate their lives to hunting down and killing witches, aided by the knowledge that, for some reason, they are not affected by the witches’ spells. They may have met their match, though, in the evil sorceress, Muriel (Famke Janssen), who is planning a mass sacrifice of children during the upcoming “Blood Moon.” This film is not for kids as there is quite a bit of violence, a little nudity, and a whole lot of cussing. It's rated R , so this film is appropriately not meant for the below age 17 audience. This is what I call a popcorn movie where you should just sit back …
