I've given movies worse scores for fewer transgressions, but this movie did surprisingly enough manage to hold on to me to the end. Well, mostly. The movie sports a tone so bleak that all characters - with one brief exception - are played overly serious and unable to experience any joy in their life, lest it come from the prophesised princess who will save them all, and they all seem content with waiting for that to eventually happen. While Hemsworth's introduction teased an entertaining character who would be able to shine some light on this overly bleak fairy tale, it's merely a ruse to hide yet another "heartbroken" character, so bland that it leaves no taste at all. Charlize Theron's performance is rock solid, and manages to carry a lot of the weight of the movie, but being the villain in a modernized fairy tale, there's no ambiguity to her fate at the end of the movie.
As far as writing goes, it's as bland as it gets. Right there on the point between boring, predictable and still somehow watchable, where I would say this movie is remarkable in how unremarkable it really is.
4 stars, because there's absolutely zero re-watch value, but not bad enough to warrant disliking it.
As far as writing goes, it's as bland as it gets. Right there on the point between boring, predictable and still somehow watchable, where I would say this movie is remarkable in how unremarkable it really is.
4 stars, because there's absolutely zero re-watch value, but not bad enough to warrant disliking it.