Total snoozefest,

I'm sorry I absolutely love Hammer, and there is a lot in this film that is great. The whole hammer glamour always looks good and this is no disappointment in that field.

But boy could they have used a good script editor. Most of the first half of the film is is empty fodder. The whole beginning scene, even though it is slightly fun, when you look back, what's was the point of that really? It takes for ever for our main characters to get to the castle, and then scenes are totally stretched out, where it's all a lot of empty talk, and nothing much happens. When something finally starts happening we're already halfway through the film. and even then it's sooo slow. we hardly get to see any excitement or drama before it's cut short and we get stuck into another useless detour when two of our main characters leave the castle to go to the crossroads with the hut, oh and then they go directly back to the castle again! (you can just hear the scriptwriter think "That's another five minutes nicely filled!")

The second half is slightly better in pacing, even though it's still the same old same old, with nothing new and interesting to add to the story here. The ending is very nice, and the ice is a nice and different idea, although my attention at that point was already someplace else, and I really couldn't care anything about these characters anymore....Sorry Hammer, you made some great films but this isn't one of them.