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Seventh Son

Seventh Son (2015)

February. 06,2015
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5.5
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PG-13
| Adventure Fantasy

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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Fairaher
2015/02/06

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

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Erica Derrick
2015/02/07

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

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Guillelmina
2015/02/08

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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Bob
2015/02/09

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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meganfothergill-76333
2015/02/10

Unfortunately I started reading the series of book this movie is based on around 2005-2006, and was horrified to know they were turning it into a movie because it's one of my favourite books of all time. Well they completely ruined it, the only things being true to the books is that the characters of John Gregory, Thomas Ward and Mother Malkin exist, and that the theme of the story is dealing with her once she is freed. Basically everything else is different, down to the characters motivations, backgrounds, and sometimes even very existence (Kit Harrington's character is dead before the book even starts, and he dies to a completely different type of creature). Beyond that the movie is poorly written, badly directed, and lacks the depth of character and lore you find in the book (a 200 page novel for 9-12 year olds, it's not like it's The Stand or some big epic). They could have done so much better, but chose not to for who knows what reasons. TL;DR The movie is probably not worth your time unless you want a very bad LOTR spoof. Go read the book, it'll take you like 2 hours max.

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Leofwine_draca
2015/02/11

SEVENTH SON is yet another cookie-cutter Hollywood fantasy adventure blockbuster aimed at the kid and teenage crowd. It feels virtually identical to THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE, a Nicolas Cage movie, albeit with a cod-medieval setting rather than the real world of the Cage movie. Jeff Bridges - who gives an embarrassingly poor copy of Ian McKellen's role as Gandalf throughout - plays a ghost-busting witch finder who takes on an apprentice (in the form of dull nice guy Ben Barnes) to battle an evil witch, played by the hideous overacting Julianne Moore. What with roles in this and R.I.P.D., you get the impression that Bridges has become one of the lazier actors in Hollywood these days.The plot is merely a series of dialogue exchanges dotted between the big CGI set-pieces showing our heroes fighting giant monsters, getting captured, and occasionally falling in love. Alicia Vikander, nowadays a big actress in her own right, shows up as the love interest but makes no impression whatsoever, while Kit Harington has a cameo so brief as to be pointless. The CGI is fairly good - you'd expect it to be given the budget - but the film has absolutely no character of its own and thus feels uniformly bland and derivative.

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OneEightNine Media
2015/02/12

This is like a 5.5 out of 10 kind of throwaway magic and dragons type of movie; however if you wisely use the fast forward button on your remote while watching, you can transform this movie into a 6 or 7 or even 7.5 out of ten type of movie. Sure, the film will be about an 45 minutes to an hour long but just remember that you are watching this CGI fest for entertainment. Not like you have to write a term paper on this or anything like that (even though the plot is so simple, you'll still be able to write a term paper about it regardless of skipping movie of it) The movie is about a magic dude, played by The Dude and he grabs a practically random stranger for hardly a reason in the world and makes him his apprentice. And they set off to kill an evil queen witch. All joking aside, the action in this movie is pretty good and maybe the only reason to watch this movie. The CGI isn't half-bad. Just fast forward the parts showing the apprentice kid talking to anyone other than Jeff Bridges and you'll be as happy as a clam.

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Chappy Watched
2015/02/13

Didn't know a great deal about this film but I do like fantasy films and Julianne Moore and Jeff Bridges were in it.That still didn't stop it from being a sh*t film.The script wasn't great, the romance between the Seventh Son and the witch had NO chemistry and felt very forced, he told her that he loved her after seeing each other three bloody times!I've seen better dragons…. everywhere but the effects for the whole movie were worse than Sharknado!The whole movie was resolved really fast and predictably in the final moments.I have no idea if the book is as boring as the film but I wouldn't recommend this film to anyone.Well… maybe if I don't like them!

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