Wednesday, January 4, 2012

The Season of the Witch (2011)

In Season of the Witch, a knight named Behmen (Nicolas Cage) and his buddy, Felsen (Ron Perlman) are serving in the crusades.  After following orders to kill women and children, they desert and head for home.    When they are captured as deserters they are given the option to assist in escorting a confessed witch to a distant monastery.  They agree and begin the dangerous journey toward their freedom.

The Season of the Witch is quite short at 95 minutes, which is a good thing. The story left me sighing constantly, and shaking my head so much I looked like I had Parkinson's.  The graphics were lame, and done poorly.  The demons in the comedy TV series Reaper, looked better than in this big screen film.  During a sequence where bad guys are dropping down from the roof, it looked as if they kept reusing the same footage of one landing.  It felt like the space battle scenes in the original Battlestar Galactica series.

When the only good thing you can say about a movie, is that it could have been worse...there is a problem.  I did not enjoy this movie, and am grateful I didn't spend money on it.  Not worth watching.  I give it a 5 / 10.

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