Poor Ben Barnes, going from one lousy fantasy to another (remember The Chronicles Of Narnia?). And these are his biggest movies to date, too.
The failure of Seventh Son wasn't in the shortcoming of its director, Sergey Bodrov, whom I thought did the best he could with the writing. It's as if the writers main aim was to get to the end of the story, and it didn't matter how they got there. That's why throughout the story, many plot points never came with an explanation. And Bodrov just pushed and forced the scenes through one after another.
Every other actor except Barnes and Alicia Vikander were there for an easy paycheck. The heavyweights like Julianne Moore, with two other movies coming out at the same time that are actually Oscar-worthy; Djimon Hounsou who doesn't exactly need this movie in his resume as half of his character's screen time was created by CGI; Olivia Williams who really appeared only twice; and Jeff Bridges, speaking with a very minor speech impediment but was the best part of the movie itself.
The movie boasted a lot of expensive looking CGI-created monsters, one even with Jason Scott Lee appearing briefly onscreen. However, there was little to no action choreography and the monsters were killed rather simply and easily.
Had it not been competent acting from all the cast members, this movie would have been much worse. But even with the competent acting, most of the time I was wondering, what the crap was I watching and why the story didn't seem to go anywhere.
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