Rupert Sanders
Biancaneve e il cacciatore

THE REVIEW

Following Tim Burton's Alice, a runway designed for the actor Johnny Depp and to pocket large amounts of money, producer Joe Roth is back in action with a new scapegoat, the Snow White fairy tale, and a cast of good-looking actors, including Kristen Stewart.

It's worth mentioning that the film's opening sequences had given me hope, where an inspired/beautiful Charlize Theron was trying to be as evil as possible; taking over an entire kingdom by seducing and stabbing a widowed king, then imprisoning his daughter with the help of her brother. But then the baton is passed to the daughter, Snow White (Stewart), who manages to escape from the isolation tower: and so the film begins to glide until it runs aground on skirmishes and scraps between her and the new queen's guards, enchanted forests, and the inevitable 7 dwarfs.

The titular hunter, initially hired by the queen, sides with Snow White, teaching her a single move to defend herself (which will not be difficult to understand against whom it will be used). Even the rivalry through close-ups to determine who is the fairest, Snow White or the queen, fails to hit the mark; no real confrontation between the two; action scenes are reduced to the bone, and special effects are ineffective. A production that operates on a very basic level (not annoying, mind you), that simply doesn't capture the attention, except perhaps of the very young. An ending as predictable as rarely seen only further disappoints the very large potential of the project, which undoubtedly does not make the slightest attempt to break away from already tested formulas like Alice or Twilight or Harry Potter. The same Stewart had recently participated in "Zathura," with much lower revenue, but it managed to evoke the fantasy films of the 1980s.

The only hope left, at least for me, is in the almost-namesake predecessor (a couple of months earlier), where Julia Roberts starred instead.