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REVIEW: Jeremy Renner's Disdain Curses Overplotted, Underwritten 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters'

REVIEW: Jeremy Renner's Disdain Curses Overplotted, Underwritten 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters'

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is not a good film — it's inconsistently acted, and somehow both underwritten and overplotted — but it has some good things going for it. For one, it's not outrageously dumber than its revisionist fairy-tale predecessors Van Helsing, Red Riding Hood or TV's Once Upon a Time, and it's far more goofily violent. It also boasts a nice title credit sequence and a brisk running time. But most importantly, the long-shelved pic is set to bow with little serious B.O. competition, ensuring suitable time for crumb gathering before it's consigned to obscurity. more »

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WATCH: Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton In The Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters Trailer

WATCH: Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton In The Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters Trailer

When Paramount moved their big-budget genre actioner Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters from March 2012 to January 11, 2013 — ostensibly to wait it out while star Jeremy Renner became a huge box office draw — many were appropriately skeptical. Now that the first trailer has arrived, see for yourself how director Tommy Wirkola (Dead Snow) updates the folktale with Renner and Gemma Arterton as the now-grown siblings/witch bounty hunters. Was the release date shuffle a case of brilliant thinking or a classic dumping ground offload?
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