Hansel & Gretel (2013)

The wonderful Dee Wallace is the only thing preventing this movie from being a total cheesefest. She's a great actress that is evident even in this film. Poor Hansel is a bad actor, which was annoying. Also annoying were the amount of times Hansel and Gretel had access to weapons but never used them. Ridiculous when you are running for your life from cannibalistic maniacs. Little things like that annoyed me throughout the movie but Dee Wallace kinda made up for them. I did like all the candies, cookies and magic powder featured in this film that gave it a fantasy aspect. The film gets pretty gory yet still feels like a movie for children. To me anyway.

I'm surprised at how many people gave this film a 1/10 because they thought it was a different film. That's like saying Shawshank Redemption is a horrible film because for some reason I thought I was renting The Godfather.The first 50 minutes of the film was your typical B-grade horror film. At that point probably was a 4/10, but could go between 2 and 6 based on ending. Then for like 20-25 minutes it went stupid weird. There was some OK stuff near end.Nothing spectacular, nothing horrible and I would love to see some make a better film for $500.

I started to see this movie by mistake thinking it was the Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters one. I just don't understand when I see these movies, who pays to have them made. I would love to talk to the person who wrote this and just ask why? No one in their right mind can think this is any good. The acting is terrible and the storyline is so stupid. I kept thinking it was going to have something that made the movie watchable. I finally just got up and turned it off. If it wasn't cause I was on a free trial of Netflix I would cancel my subscription for even having this garbage on their site. This isn't even good enough to have in the background while you fall asleep.

What a waste of an hour and a half of my life! I'm not sure what's worse: the script, the direction, or the editing! The story jumps about as if there are bits missing from it, and there are dozens of plot-holes and so many "that would never happen in real life" incidents that the film becomes painful to watch. I couldn't even bear to watch it in one go, I had to turn it off after less than an hour and then I watched the rest later on. I only got this film/movie by mistake because I actually wanted to see a different film with a very similar title, but this film looks and feels like it was made by a group of high school students, not a team of professional film makers!