As the seventh son of a seventh son, he has been gifted with extraordinary strength and agility, which he uses to battle his chief enemy, shape-shifting witches. Affecting an obscure (but at least consistent) accent, he plays John Gregory, a grizzled, booze-swilling "spook," whose job is supernatural pest control. And thus it is that "Seventh Son" delivers exactly what it promises: Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore slumming in a laughably generic sword-and-sorcery almost-epic.īridges, at least, seems to be having a little fun while doing it. But movie trailers, on the other hand, often are remarkably accurate predictors. It didn’t – making it of no interest whatsoever.You can't judge a book by its cover, we're told. Indeed, the film’s only possible point of interest was whether its pre-Oscar US release would nix (or “ Norbit”) Moore’s chances of winning a statuette. The action lumbers hither and yon through endless cod-gothic 3D CG set pieces, but to no avail.
Meanwhile, apprentice spook Tom ( Narnia’s Ben Barnes) makes saucer-eyes at Vikander’s witchy temptress, who is introduced in a scene stolen directly from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. A bewhiskered Bridges “argle-wargle-fargles” his way through the incoherent dialogue as a medieval “spook” locked in eternal combat with Moore’s she-devil, who fails to be either alluring or interesting despite a nice line in feathery collars and the ability to turn into a flying lizard. Instead, it lingered in post-production hell before tanking spectacularly in America. This dull-as-ditchwater fantasy romp from Sergei Bodrov, director of Mongol: The Rise to Power of Genghis Khan, was intended to launch a lucrative sword-and-sorcery franchise based on Joseph Delaney’s fantasy novel series The Wardstone Chronicles. Y ou have to admire a movie which takes a gold-star cast (Julianne Moore, Jeff Bridges, Alicia Vikander) and creates such an unpolishable turd.
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