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Feb 6, 2015 · A fantasy adventure film based on a YA book, starring Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore as a witch-hunting duo. The review praises the effects, the art direction, and the charm of the old-school monster scenes, but criticizes the predictable plot and the YA aspect.
12% Tomatometer 120 Reviews. 34% Audience Score 50,000+ Ratings. Centuries ago, a supernatural champion named Master Gregory (Jeff Bridges) defeated Mother Malkin (Julianne Moore), a...
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- Sergey Bodrov
- PG-13
- Jeff Bridges
Dec 18, 2014 · Film Review: ‘Seventh Son’. An over-designed, under-conceived fantasy epic in which even topnotch contributors can't get the chemistry right, leaving Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore looking...
Feb 6, 2015 · With Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes, Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander. 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.
- (81K)
- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
- Sergei Bodrov
- 2015-02-06
- The Dude does not abide witches.
- Verdict
By Adam DiLeo
Posted: Feb 6, 2015 12:35 am
If you've seen the trailer for Seventh Son, you’ve seen all the movie has to offer: a grizzled, staff-wielding Jeff Bridges squaring off against Julianne Moore’s army of evil minions, a generic young hero (Ben Barnes) caught in the middle, and more giant monsters than you can shake a sword at.
The story, such as it is, amounts to little more than the stretched out third act of what might have been an epic journey, but instead feels like a hurried, haphazard succession of battle sequences in ever more cinematic locales. It starts with Master Gregory (Bridges), a professional “Spook” who earns his living doing battle with things that go bump in the night. He takes young Tom Ward (Barnes) as his apprentice just in time for the end of the world, which is now only days away. But don’t worry, there’ll be a knife throwing montage somewhere in the middle to mold this unqualified rube into a match for the greatest evil the world has ever known.
Seventh Son is typical medieval fantasy fluff. At best it can only impress audiences willing to overlook tired plot devices (A magic amulet! A secret order of knights!) and cartoonish characters for the sake of excellent fight choreography and special effects played out on massive sets by Oscar winner Dante Ferretti. Regardless of its technical merit, however, one subset of viewers is guaranteed to hate this movie: fans of the book upon which it is based.
Seventh Son draws little more than character names and backstory from The Spook’s Apprentice, the first installment of Joseph Delaney’s young adult fantasy series The Wardstone Chronicles. Though the most obvious departure is Tom’s age -- 13 in the book, late 20s in the movie -- the diametric changes to Gregory’s personality are what rob the movie of the book’s quaint, unassuming charm.
You could do worse than Seventh Son, but you could also do a whole lot better. Though it looks nice and has better action set pieces than you might expect, it lacks heart. Characters are one-dimensional and there just isn't much of a story.
- Adam Dileo
Feb 5, 2015 · Seventh Son first look review – who you gonna call? Witchbusters! Despite featuring Julianne Moore, Jeff Bridges, nude witches and slobbering giants, this swords’n’sorcery CGI epic is loud...
Tom Ward (Ben Barnes) is the seventh son of a seventh son: a rare genetic lineage that sets him on the path to becoming a Spook a.k.a., a slayer of the myriad evil creatures that haunt the land.
