Seventh Son

  • Adventure
  • Fantasy
12/12/2014
102
PG-13

When darkness falls, the son will rise.

John Gregory, who is a seventh son of a seventh son and also the local spook, has protected the country from witches, boggarts, ghouls and all manner of things that go bump in the night. However John is not young anymore, and has been seeking an apprentice to carry on his trade. Most have failed to survive. The last hope is a young farmer's son named Thomas Ward. Will he survive the training to become the spook that so many others couldn't?

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Revenue:
$114,178,613
Budget:
$95,000,000

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  • Frank Ochieng

    The mundane medieval movie Seventh Son is indicative of the cinema wasteland that the beginning of a brand new movie season trudges in after the New Year arrives. In any event, Seventh Son is in good company (or is that bad company?) with flaccid fare such as the sci-fi eyesore Jupiter Ascending and the meatless melodrama The Boy Next Door joining the parade of putrid pictures occupying the big screen at the same time. What is even more shockingly shoddy about Seventh Sons embarrassing presentation as a sluggish supernatural movie misstep is the inclusion of Oscar-winner Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) and current Oscar-nominee Julianne Moore (for 2014s Still Alice) saddled in director Sergei Bodrovs (Mongol) period piece sci-fi sludge. Bridgess...

    October 11, 2015
  • Dark Jedi

    This is a good, solid fantasy adventure. It is not a wow great kind of movie but definitely enjoyable to watch, at least if you are a fan of fantasy, magic, dragons and such like.

    The movie is based on a book which I have not read although I believe it is considered as a young adult book. The movie seems to reflect this in that it has a fairly simple, straightforward, adventure plot. This is a movie made to entertain with magic, adventure, a bit of humor and visual effects. Nothing more and nothing less.

    In my opinion it does so fairly well. I do like Jeff Bridges in his role as a rather wacky hunter of evil witches who have fallen into a dark and uncaring attitude towards the world around him. Uncaring about everything except slaying of ...

    February 25, 2018

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