A good idea but the execution is just below average

Rating: 4/10 (31 October 2014)

Now I really do believe that this film's premise is a really good one and there are some positives but I think overall this is a failure of a project. This sees the fairy tale characters of Hansel and Gretel years after the story as witch hunting bounty hunters attempting to stop an evil plot by the witches. Now Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton play Hansel and Gretel and they both do an okay job, now I like both of them in the stuff they have been in but they are not helped in this film by the script. For all the action and fight scenes they were awesome and really did a good job of being bounty hunters, however, the actual acting is pretty poor but they try their best and it helps a little bit. Now Famke Janssen plays the villain witch and I think she did a good job in her role by being as evil as truly possible and looking like she was enjoying the role. But the rest of the supporting cast is poor and underdeveloped, whether it is Renner's love interest, or the troll who helps Arterton or their town associate they are all lacklustre and a big negative in the film. This is also associated with the story because there are a few story arcs but they give no effort into any of them which is annoying cause there was some potential in some of them. The script is also not impressive with the dialogue not being that creative at all and attempting to sabotage the film quite a bit. The style of the film is great with the surprising amount of violence being a good decision to separate this film from others like it. Overall this film is below average and I wish there was a bit more substance to it as the premise was really cool.