Rating of
1.5/4
No longer a children's tale is this gory splash !
sreekirch - wrote on 06/19/13
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 and other finds the giant Edward. The plot moves slowly and takes time for the siblings to re unite. Once they do, audience are already yawning. The action is all slapstick comedy and filled with wry humor. The fights never seems ending, filled with blood and gory splashes at every fight instance. So the answer is right, This is no longer a children’s movie.
Renner as Hansel is in the modern world. Due to eating of candies, he is diabetic and he needs insulin dose. That sounds interesting. Arterton as Gretel is not a perfect fit. She takes a lot of beating than Renner in the film. Renner and Arterton weren’t seeming to be siblings. They look a lot like couples in action. No the time is over, fairy tales are absurd now. Need a commercial pot boiler, then go for action that is in limits. Wirkola and team stumble to get through the premise and give a handy film to the audience. I thought of giving it a mediocre rating because of some story that was ambitious to the original, but lot of instances in the film, makes Hansel and Gretel’s new version gimmick.
Gory, visually dull, gimmick and cliched plot, never hesitates to boredom and suffocating panic that rests upon the whole of the run time. A Wooden spoon.
