Finished watching The Huntsman: Winter's War, directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan and staring Emily Blunt, Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth, Jessica Chastain, Sam Clafin, Nick Frost and Rob Brydon. The film opens up with the origins of Freya, the Ice Queen (Emily Blunt) as her sister Ravenna (Charlize Theron) attempts to unleash her sister's potential powers which leads to Freya making home in the north when her newly born daughter is burnt to death. After pillaging surrounding villages Freya's army takes the local children into her custody as she begins to train them to become her finest warriors. Two of the warriors Eric (Chris Hemsworth) and Sara (Jessica Chastain) defy their Queen by falling in love and secretly getting married leading to Freya to make Eric believe that Sara was killed as the rest of the queen's army throw him into a nearby river. Several years later Eric is called upon by Snow White as her husband King William (Sam Clafin) briefs Eric on the mission to retrieve the Magic Mirror and take it to the Sanctuary after it went missing when they lost contact with a small group of soldiers who had the Mirror in their possession. Overall this was a good film as it dives into the backstory of Eric, the huntsman who was last seen in the Snow White and the Huntsman film by making him the main character, which works greatly here. The character moments between Eric and Sara are great as the two instantly act like a married couple throughout the journey even though Sara keeps denying the status of their relationship which brings about a lot of the comedy of the film. While the addition of the Dwarf half brothers Nion (Nick Frost) and Gryff (Rob Brydon) bring about more laughs due to their reactions and the situations they find themselves in within the film. The fight choreography is great as even though most of the fights are against CGI creatures and are enhanced by CGI as well the film is still able to showcase some jaw dropping action scenes which are seamlessly built together. One negative of this film has is the fact that Freya's backstory and motivation is extremely obvious to what and who was behind it while the psychological motivation of Freya is an interesting aspect that the film does tell. As the film basically leaves the audience to pice together the character's reasoning allowing them make up their own judgement of the character. 7/10.
Friday 15 April 2016
The Huntsman: Winter's War Film Review
Finished watching The Huntsman: Winter's War, directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan and staring Emily Blunt, Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth, Jessica Chastain, Sam Clafin, Nick Frost and Rob Brydon. The film opens up with the origins of Freya, the Ice Queen (Emily Blunt) as her sister Ravenna (Charlize Theron) attempts to unleash her sister's potential powers which leads to Freya making home in the north when her newly born daughter is burnt to death. After pillaging surrounding villages Freya's army takes the local children into her custody as she begins to train them to become her finest warriors. Two of the warriors Eric (Chris Hemsworth) and Sara (Jessica Chastain) defy their Queen by falling in love and secretly getting married leading to Freya to make Eric believe that Sara was killed as the rest of the queen's army throw him into a nearby river. Several years later Eric is called upon by Snow White as her husband King William (Sam Clafin) briefs Eric on the mission to retrieve the Magic Mirror and take it to the Sanctuary after it went missing when they lost contact with a small group of soldiers who had the Mirror in their possession. Overall this was a good film as it dives into the backstory of Eric, the huntsman who was last seen in the Snow White and the Huntsman film by making him the main character, which works greatly here. The character moments between Eric and Sara are great as the two instantly act like a married couple throughout the journey even though Sara keeps denying the status of their relationship which brings about a lot of the comedy of the film. While the addition of the Dwarf half brothers Nion (Nick Frost) and Gryff (Rob Brydon) bring about more laughs due to their reactions and the situations they find themselves in within the film. The fight choreography is great as even though most of the fights are against CGI creatures and are enhanced by CGI as well the film is still able to showcase some jaw dropping action scenes which are seamlessly built together. One negative of this film has is the fact that Freya's backstory and motivation is extremely obvious to what and who was behind it while the psychological motivation of Freya is an interesting aspect that the film does tell. As the film basically leaves the audience to pice together the character's reasoning allowing them make up their own judgement of the character. 7/10.
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