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Action | Drama | Fantasy | Adventure | Romance
Fantasy Action and Violence | Frightening Moments | Partial Nudity | Brief Sexual Content
Action | Drama | Fantasy | Adventure | Romance
Fantasy Action and Violence | Frightening Moments | Partial Nudity | Brief Sexual Content
A couple of years after Silena (Nell Tiger Free) was crowned queen of Asgard, she has been in contact with her winged godfather and king of the Moors, Loki (Tom Hiddleston), by sending him letters from the palace as well as visiting him in person. While admiring a rose blooming in the Moors during the winter, Silena pricks her finger on one of its thorns. Three drops of blood fall onto the snow-covered ground, and she wishes for a daughter as white as the snow, lips as red as blood, hair as black as a raven's wings, and a heart as strong and defiant as the rose, just like her godfather. Contacting Loki about her pregnancy, Loki gave her his greatest prayers for her child to be born.
Later, Silena shows Loki an injured Diaval (Sam Riley) in his raven form and Loki proceeds to heal him. He also tells Silena that she possessed real beauty as well as placing a hand to her heart. Loki's wish for Silena's child to be born was shattered as Silena died of a miscarriage along with the baby during its birth. Upon hearing the news from Diaval, Loki's heart fell in grief.
Weeks after her passing, Silena's husband, Balder (Edgar Ramirez), rescues a woman named Ravenna (Charlize Theron) from an invading Dark Army, a dark clan of demons. He eventually becomes enchanted with her beauty, and marries her. Ravenna, who is actually a powerful sorceress, kills him on their wedding night and takes control of the kingdom. After hearing the news of the husband's murder, Loki turns anxious for the kingdom until Ravenna's army raids the Moors and captures him. Sent to the high north tower of the palace, shirtless and chained, Loki has been painfully tortured for ten years as his wings shed to nothingness. As the years passed, his pain ascended as well as his physical appearance never aging, except for his extending hair.
Asgard and the Moors were ruined under Ravenna's rule as she periodically drains the youth from the kingdom's young women in order to maintain a youth spell. Ravenna learns from her Magic Mirror (Christopher Obi Ogugua) that the son of a certain fairy is destined to destroy her unless Ravenna consumes his heart, which will make her immortal. Ravenna orders her brother, Finn (Sam Spruell), to bring Loki to her and he begins a small chat with the sorcerer until Loki manages to escape the kingdom and into the Moors, where the magical forest has turned dark and weak ever since he was imprisoned. After years of no heir, the forest, now dark and weak, began to show his worst fears through hallucinations. Showered in fear, Loki passes out.
Meanwhile in Asgard, Ravenna makes a bargain with Eric the Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth), a widower and a drunkard as well as the younger identical twin brother of the deceased King Thor. She promises him that if he captures Loki successfully, she would bring his loved one back to life in exchange. Accepting, Eric tracks him down to the Moors. Thinking it's Thor, Loki attacks him, and he tries to kill him. However, Eric manages to disarm him and proves that he doesn't have the same birth mark as his brother. While being Eric's hostage, Loki begs and tries to convince him that the queen plans to kill him, but the Huntsman brushes him off. When Finn catches up to them, Eric was just about to give up Loki until Finn reveals that Ravenna does not actually have the power to do what she promised. Betrayed, Eric fights his men while he lets Loki runs away.
While Loki continues running, the Huntsman covers his mouth and tells him to be quiet to prevent him from screaming. But as soon as his grip on Loki is released, the fae strikes him in the face and stands guard as he takes one of Eric's knives. Curious, Eric asks him why the queen would want him dead, but Loki tells the Huntsman that he should know. As soon as Eric begins to walk away, Loki tries to convince him that he doesn't want to be alone. After he promises to exchange him gold, Eric agrees to escort him to the castle of Balder's father, Duke Hammond (Vincent Regan), in the realm of Vanaheim. Before they leave, Loki remembers something and he runs to it. Running through the trees, he sees the temple of Maleficent destroyed, along with no body. Shocked and upset that his mother was gone from her resting place, Loki cries once again, but he eventually walks away from the temple with Eric.
As they continue walking, Loki's hallucinations catch up to him once again as Eric saves him from the branches of a tree that caught Loki's clothes. Telling him that the forest now targets his weakness, Eric rips off the dirty shirt that Loki was wearing and tosses to him a black cloak that was very similar to his old one. He then gives him a small knife before he shows him a move that he uses to defend himself. Loki hesitates, but he listens.
Later, they manage to reach the end of the Moors until Eric senses something that something wasn't right. They eventually get attacked by a troll and he tells the fae to run. Just before the Huntsman was going to finished off, Loki screams at the creature by charming it before it backs off. Eric tells him that he should have listened to him, but discovers that Loki never left because he would have died in the hands of the creature.
They eventually make their way to the edge of the realm, where there is a fishing village populated by female Asgardians who have disfigured themselves to save their own lives from Ravenna. While there, the Huntsman learns that Loki is the son of an evil fairy, where he thinks Loki is a sign of pure evil. He initially leaves him in the care of the women, but he soon returns to see the village being burned down by Finn's men. Loki and the Huntsman evade them and eventually flee to the realm of Alfheim, a land shrouded with the beauty of nature and populated with fairy-like spirits. They meet a band of eight dwarves, formed by Muir (Bob Hoskins), Beith (Ian McShane), Gort (Ray Winstone), Coll (Toby Jones), Duir (Eddie Marsan), Quert (Johnny Harris), Nion (Nick Frost), and Gus (Brian Gleeson). Muir perceives that Loki is the savior; the only person who can defeat Ravenna and end her reign.
Upon saying this, they travel through the fairy sanctuary until the dwarves stop at a large pond where Loki sees a familiar figure that he knows in the water. Shockingly, it's his mother, Maleficent (Angelina Jolie). After he touches the top of the water, the water stirs and the naked body of his mother rises from the water while a flock of ravens fly around her. Her hair becomes a black horned headress in a cloak of black along with a scepter. After witnessing this, Loki asks her how it's possible. She explains that it was Diaval that brought her the realm of Alfheim ever since the Moors turned dark and that he perished in the blast.
As they set up camp, Loki and Eric become smitten with each other as Maleficent watches in the distance. The next morning, while the others were asleep, Loki is awakened by the fairies and follows them through the woods. He comes across a magnificent white stag that almost never shows itself. Maleficent, Eric, and the dwarves watch as the stag blesses him, according to Muir, who also says that he is life itself and that he will heal the kingdom. Suddenly, an arrow pierces the stag's side and the group is attacked by Finn's men, resulting in Gus' death when he jumps in front of Loki to prevent an arrow from hitting him. The Huntsman kills Finn after learning that Finn abetted in the murder of his wife Sarah.
Reaching Vanaheim, halfway to the castle, Loki asks Maleficent why he freezes plants instead of healing them. She eventually gives up her hidden secret and eventually tells him that he was an abandoned baby who was adopted into her care. Heartbroken, he pushes away from her, betrayed. Despising her pleas, he retreats on his own until Ravenna disguises herself as Eric and tempts Loki into eating a poisoned apple, but is forced to flee when the real Huntsman and Maleficent discover her. Maleficent cradles her "son" and he slowly dies. Heartbroken, Maleficent cries for him at the spot.
Loki, whom they believe is dead, is taken to the Duke's castle. As Loki lies in repose, Maleficent watches over him until she professes her apology and that she did it for his own survival. She watches and listens to Eric profess his regret for not saving Loki, who reminds him of his loved one, and kisses him, breaking the spell. As night fell with everyone in bed, Loki awakens that night and walks into the room where Eric was sleeping. Seeing Loki alive and well, Eric learns about Loki's pain and suffering as well as learning about Silena's passing. He feels pity for him and Eric confesses his feelings with Loki returning his own feelings until the friendship turned into something far more precious that night.
Hours later that night, Loki walks into the courtyard, and rallies an army to mount a siege against Ravenna. The dwarves infiltrate the castle through the sewers and opens the gates, allowing the army inside. Loki and Maleficent make their way to the top of the castle tower and confront Ravenna, just as the huntsman and the duke's soldiers arrive. Ravenna causes the ceiling in the hall over the soldiers to turn into shards of sharp, black glass as they form into fighting monsters. While the soldiers are occupied, Loki and Maleficent fight the queen, but are overpowered. Ravenna was prepared to kill Loki and consume his heart by stabbing him with her dagger, but Maleficent steps in front of him and gets stabbed instead. Loki, shocked to witness this, is encouraged by Maleficent to keep fighting. Ravenna, once again, was about to kill him when, using the move that Eric taught him, Loki stabs her in the heart instead, causing Ravenna to wither and die.
Running to Maleficent and cradling her in his arms, he once again cries and immediately apologizes for his actions against her. She tells him its okay and she makes her final sigh. But as Loki cries loudly, he apologizes one more time and remembers that his healing powers could possibly help her. He puts his hand on her wound and tries to heal her. He eventually succeeds, but she doesn't awaken. He tells her of all the things she did for him and how much he loves her as her son until he kisses her on the forehead. Seconds later, she immediately awakens with a gasp. Relieved with tears of joy, he hugs her with love and the army turns victorious.
Asgard and the Moors once again enjoy peace and harmony as Maleficent earns back her wings and receives the throne of the Moors while Loki accepted his role as prince. In Asgard, Eric becomes crowned king while Loki and Maleficent are present. Many poignant looks ensue between Loki and Eric.
While Loki stands alone at his Home Tree on the Great Cliff, Eric approaches him and he embraces him. As they stood together, he kisses the fae before a raven in the distance flies close and ends the story in a screen of black.
Crossover and Remake of the dark fantasy action movies: 'Maleficent' and 'Snow White and the Huntsman'
