The film’s large budget – some $90+ million – seems to be entirely up on the screen, in a kinda low-rent Lord Of The Rings vista with often clunky visual effects that don’t convince. Not from a production standpoint, however: composer Marco Beltrami’s score is epic and large, legendary production designer Dante Ferreti’s work is stunning to say the least, and the CG effects are no worse than the Scorpion King’s was in final act of The Mummy Returns…. Tom and Alice fall in love, leading – naturally – to a conflict of interest between the two, one which will have a major effect on Tom’s ability to help Master Gregory. Battling evil with Gregory, Tom meets a witch, Alice (Alicia Vikander), the daughter of Bonny (Antje Traue), who happens to be the witchy sister of Malkin, making her family. Gregory’s previous apprentice, Billy (Kit Harington) is killed during an attempt to capture Malkin, leading Gregory to recruit a new underling – he discovers Tom Ward (Ben Barnes), living with his mother (Olivia Williams), and is the seventh son of a seventh son, making him the rightful recruit for the job. Hunting down demons, ghosts, devilspawn and witches, and either incarcerating or exterminating them depending on their level of danger, Gregory’s main mission is the capture and killing of the evil Mother Malkin (Julianne Moore), a powerful with who threatens to turn the world into darkness as she seeks revenge on… well, someone. Whatever positive words I might have had for the film evaporated quickly, as Jeff Bridges’ growling Master Gregory scoured the land to rid it of all the dark creatures lurking in the shadow Seventh Son is thunderously, tragically, over-the-top.īridges plays resident ghoul hunter Master Gregory, often referred to in the film as “a spook”, perhaps a reference to the CIA-esque activities he engages in. Seventh Son’s literary DNA is reduced to – and perhaps I’m being too kind, I know not – almost a Van Helsing level of inept plotting and generic, utterly preposterous characters and landscapes. Not to mention the dialogue: ugh, the dialogue, most of which is tin-eared and smothered in ye-olde-worlde phrasing and delivery, clatters about the screen like a dervish in search of a whirl. Seventh Son has some mighty problems to contend with, including inadequate screen villainy by a normally excellent Julianne Moore, a mumbling, nigh-unintelligible performance by Jeff Bridges, and a blink-an-miss-it extended cameo by Game Of Thrones hunk Kit Harington. Seventh Son has a nice amount of story to its bones, yet fumbles the ball unimaginably badly at times, leaving me wondering whether this was supposed to be a comedy, a parody, or some kind of One True Hero homage that misses the mark. What we think : Fair-effort sword-n-magic adventure sees plenty of heavy-handed posturing, a weak-ass villainess, and a romantic interlude that is less convincing than a Kardashian wedding.
THE SEVENTH SON MOVIE CAST PROFESSIONAL
Synopsis: When Mother Malkin, the queen of evil witches, escapes the pit she was imprisoned in by professional monster hunter Spook decades ago and kills his apprentice, he recruits young Tom, the seventh son of the seventh son, to help him. Principal Cast : Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes, Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Olivia Williams, Antje Traue, Kandsye McClure, Djimon Hounsou, Jason Scott Lee.
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