Michael Cohn's gothic adaptation of the Grimm Brothers' tale just never gets grim enough, it has to be said, due mainly to the unnecessarily ponderous first hour, during which not a great deal happens. It all looks authentically menacing though, and things do eventually hot up when Sigourney Weaver's splendidly sinister and sexy witch is finally allowed to let rip and totally steal the show from a disappointingly lacklustre Snow White.