Full of action, a nicely darkened twist on a classic tale!

Rating: 8/10 (17 February 2013)

First and foremost my personal feelings towards this movie was complete satisfaction. I didn't want to be thrown a story of intense proportion, I didn't want to spend 3 hours trying to work out who is what, where is which etc. I wanted ACTION. I wanted an EPIC SOUNDTRACK. I wanted GORE and I wanted to be able to get that little smile I get when you see something and thing quietly "Holy s***... That right there? That was awesome!".
Did Hansel and Gretel provide? YES. YES IT DID.
It has the action I expected and then some. It had Jeremy and Gemma portrayed as complete bada** witch hunters. With a soundtrack from Hans Zimmer and Atli Orvarsson how could I complain!
No, it has no epic underlying plot, not many twists BUT the story line is what I wanted, and yes even the little twists here and there were perfect to keep an action oriented movie goer interested. No "Inception" style major plot twists and complicated characters.
To put it simply, it was exactly what I expected, and that little more to make it one of those simple action movies that I could watch a thousand times and still be impressed. People need to stop comparing it to drama styled movies and complex character progression oriented films. I'm actually quite disappointed with IMDb. They've turned into the equivalent of IGN. Near nothing has a review of even higher than an 8/10 in their entire current cinema lists, yet users are giving things like this great scores for what it did right in comparison to what was wrong.
TL;DR; Movie was great, story was perfect for what it aimed at accomplishing, soundtrack is awesome, acting was perfect for these parts.
8/10