Jeff Bridges plays a gruff Master Gregory who has lost his apprentice (Kit Harington) during a fight with a powerful witch (Julianne Moore). Thomas Ward (Ben Barnes) is chosen to be Gregory's new apprentice. And there you go, an action-packed adventure with perilous monsters and witches lurking. Nothing in the movie surprises, even the twists have been seen before.
The long-delayed young adult book adaptation finally shows up on big screen. Asia noticeably has an earlier release date. The question now is "Is it worth the wait?" For a movie delayed this long, people have already forgotten about it so I won't be surprised if it flops at box office. This gets as generic as what a fantasy period film can be. It is packed with every cliché you find in the genre however it is still entertaining with its action set pieces, decent CGI and 3D.
It's not an awful film but if you want to see something new, anything new, then this isn't the film to look at. The production quality is high; things look good. They're shot well and you can see a lot of time and effort went into creating it. But I have to ask, if you're going to put that much time and effort into a project, why not do something new/fresh/unique/original?
Overall, everything just looked unspectacular, despite the costumes, the settings,the CGI monsters and creatures. Not even the always watchable Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, Olivia Williams and Djimon Hounsou could save this movie. I'm a huge fan of fantasy action adventure movies but everything in the Seventh Son, the romance, the action scenes, the dialog, etc. all looked like it was borrowed from another movie. Even the jokes were cliché.
Seventh Son has a lot of potential, the special effects are good, the action scenes are interesting, and the cast is amazing but something doesn't gel. There's something wrong the movie could have been better and it might be the writing or the directing . I didn't really care about the characters, I did not once I worried or cared about any of them dying.
Anyway my mother was so excited when watching the trailer and it has Julianne Moore and Jeff Bridges. She hid it, but I could see in her eyes. but when the movie came out, she was like MEHHHH. no Big Lebowski moment
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