One of the worst movies I've ever seen

Disturbing yet enthralling

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

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

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.

This is a absolutely dreadful rendition of one of my favorite childhood books. First of Tom Ward is suppose to be twelve years old. The actor playing him was in his thirties. Alice is also suppose to be twelve. Billy Bradley was suppose to died to a boggot because he was careless and got his thumbs stuck under the stone he was sealing it with, not to Mother Malkin. I managed to get through about ten minutes of this garbage before I was forced to turn it off in disappointment. Hopefully someone will try again and hopefully stick to the actually plot of the book. I hope they will also cast appropriate people to match the characters ACTUAL ages.

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.

Right off the bat you know this will not be a great film when American-accented actors jar your ears in a period piece set in European medieval times. American Oscar winners Julianne Moore and Jeff Bridges both try to carry off an accent, so why didn't the other top-billed stars, Ben Barnes and Alicia Vikander? What makes this all the more bizarre is that Ben Barnes is British, as is Olivia Williams who also affected an American accent! Something I learned from the bonus material on the DVD. What weird thinking drove that decision? From there it continued downhill. I found myself shaking my head repeatedly. Other reviews pointed out the film's triteness, disjointedness, poor editing, terrible music scoring, and miscasting. Makes one appreciate the true artistry and skill it takes to make a good fantasy film such as Lord of the Rings. You can tell that the star-power actors had high hopes for this film. What a sad waste of money, time, and labor. Don't watch this film.