Seventh Son (2015) Movie Review

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Seventh Son (2015)
Rating:     Rated PG-13 for intense fantasy violence and action throughout, frightening images and brief strong language
Production:     Warner Bros. Pictures
Genres:     Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Family
Countries:     USA, China, UK, Canada
Language:     English
Director:       Sergey Bodrov
Writers:        Charles Leavitt , Steven Knight
Stars:          Ben Barnes, Julianne Moore, Jeff Bridges

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Salon.com Andrew O'HehirIt's a thoroughly incoherent, generally inane and surprisingly entertaining tale of witches and monsters and what legendary film critic Joe Bob Briggs calls “beast fu,” all set in a sub-Tolkien, sub-“Game of Thrones” pseudo-medieval universe.

The Dissolve Scott TobiasThe film is overstuffed, but it's swift and unpretentious, barreling through a non-stop series of action setpieces without pausing too long to take a breath. The busyness doesn't eradicate the clichés, much less enrich the film emotionally or thematically, but there's no time to think about them when Bodrov and his screenwriters, Charles Leavitt and Steven Knight, are moving along to the next sensation. It's transporting in that sense, and that sense alone.

New York Post Kyle SmithSeventh Son is not a good movie, but it's also not a pretentious one, and I call that a fair trade.

Entertainment Weekly Kyle Anderson(Bridges) has a tendency to make mistakes, especially when it comes to science fiction and fantasy titles. He has followed up the minor disasters that were "R.I.P.D." and "The Giver" with Seventh Son.

The Hollywood Reporter Jordan MintzerIf anything, the movie offers up the guilty pleasure of seeing Bridges and Moore duel it out in front of countless green screens and a few stunning Canadian backdrops - two great actors clawing at each other with magic staffs and fake fire, trying to survive in the netherworld of heroic kitsch.

New York Daily News Joe NeumaierDirector Sergei Bodrov's movie is based on a kids' book in which Tom was a 12-year-old, and the actors wisely pitch their performances to a young crowd.

USA Today Claudia PuigMoore goes into operatic mode as Mother Malkin, a nasty witch who morphs into a menacing winged dragon. The worst performance, however, belongs to Jeff Bridges as a marble-mouthed, curmudgeonly knight named Master Gregory.

Tribune News Service Roger MooreThe only question that's worth considering in Seventh Son is whether this all-star B-movie is bad enough to cost Julianne Moore her “Still Alice” Oscar. And the answer to that is, “Not really.”

Variety Peter DebrugeGiven the fine past work of its many parents, there was clearly potential here, but as delivered, Seventh Son amounts to nothing short of a creative miscarriage.

Slant Magazine Elise NakhnikianAs is often the case in films like this, Seventh Son is at its weakest when it tries to leaven its brink-of-disaster gravity with a little nerdy humor.