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The Seventh Son Review
When a film is this shit you have to ask yourself how nobody chimed in at some point to say ‘Let’s stop spending 95 million dollars on this and make another Saw movie or something.’
Unfortunately nobody did and this steaming turd actually got made.
The Seventh Son like so many failed book adaptations before it was shot by a director who had no respect for the source material or the fantasy genre in any capacity. Honestly, this film is just 102 minutes of the most clichéd tropes the genre has to offer. Even worse, Director Sergey Bodrov makes it look like a failed daytime television pilot.
The performances in this plagiarizing dung heap are just as bad infusing laziness with bizarre character choices. A couple of years back Jeff Bridges got an Oscar for being the incomprehensible drunkard Rooster Cogburn in True Grit and for some reason he felt it necessary to play that award winning character again here. Bridges’ acting is so out of place that it's actually hilarious. Julianne Moore spends the film with zucchini fingers and morphs into an eagle sized dragon at random. Ben Barnes is the wooden titular character and replaces an early exited Kit Harington for reasons unbeknownst to box office logistics.
And everyone else isn't worth the mention besides John DeSantis as Tusk. Unhappy with stealing from every other fantasy movie in the last 20 years they decided to take from the 80's too and throw in a Henson workshop monster amidst all the CGI.
The film is over scored making the action set pieces flat and underwhelming. Because of this there is no real climax and the movie disintegrates rather than ends. With the amount of money it has lost so far it is unlikely that the saga will continue on screen. Saw 8 will be out this summer...
Written by Rob Buckley |
Written by Richard O Connell |