‘Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters’ Review: A Bloody Grimm Mess
&amp;#8216;Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters&amp;#8217; Review: A
Bloody Grimm Mess  The best thing one can say is that it’s 88
minutes long, and stars Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton have
done and will again do far better work   There are mash-ups —
and there’s just mashed.  “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters” is
the latter, a squashed-together mess that tries to cram too many
different types of movies into one and instead ends up as a
pointless, steaming pile of cinematic detritus.  It must have
sounded good at the pitch meeting. Take the Grimm Brothers’
classic tale about a brother and sister who are taken prisoner
by a witch after nibbling on her candy house and cross it with a
really badass action picture. Have the siblings grow up to
become skillful bounty hunters who save medieval towns from
marauding witches. Give the pair some seriously cool weapons,
including giant hulking automatic guns and crossbows, with which
to mow down the witches in