An unnecessary tale to be told

Rating: 3/10 (19 June 2013)

Before watching 'Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters', I had already known that this movie got horrible reviews from critics, but I still curious and watched it on DVD few hours ago. To be honest, 'Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters' is really that bad, no wonder the movie fails and got extremely nasty reviews. There are a lot of foolish scenes and plot holes like, how could human easily chase witch that using a broom and could run so fast, at early scene it showed how great Muriel (Famke Janssen)was but she suddenly got weak at the end with no reason, doesn't she with her power just disappear and kill Hansel easily? Every time Hansel or Gretel had been on crisis situation, they awkwardly had a back up to help them which is so coincidence.
The storyline itself is predictable and boring, the 88 minutes length felt so long and made me wanna finish it as quick as possible. Luckily I didn't see it at cinema when it came out last January. The visual effect is also standard and the make-up for the witch is ridiculous. Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton didn't act bad actually, they were just choosing wrong movie this time. Overall, 'Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunter' is a really poor movie and feels wrong in every aspect. Its should be just straight directed to DVD which still doesn't worth to own it either.