With wizards, warlocks, witches, walled cities, demons, dragons, knights and ogres, and of course with a side of romance, "Seventh Son" has everything you need for a Medieval epic tale. In this movie Tom Ward (Ben Barnes) is the 7th son of a 7th son, a fate thought to hold great destiny. Tom becomes the apprentice of John Gregory (Jeff Bridges). Gregory is a "spook" which in this world is ironically a good guy who protects humankind from evil supernatural spirits and beings. Gregory's arch nemesis is the powerful witch Malkin (Julianne Moore), who is growing more powerful with the presence of a blood moon. Together Gregory and Tom go and a quest to stop Malkin's havoc. This movie is a film version of the novel "The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch," the first book of the "Wardstone Chronicles" by Joseph Delaney. When these types of novel series moved to the big screen, there are a large number of characters that are well developed in the book. It's hard to cram all this character development into two hours. "Seventh Son" had lots of interesting characters that were likely highly developed in the novel, but in the movie it feels like it moves too fast to get to know any of them
and the movie is not that fast paced. There are just that many characters. All in all it's till a fun movie to watch, with some good action sequences.
Review of Seventh Son
Seventh Son
(I) (2014)
"Seventh Son" has everything you need for a Medieval epic tale.
6 August 2017