![]() ![]() In the novel, he trains for months or longer. In the movie, he’s got a week to train up before an evil witch (played by Julianne Moore) takes over the world. The main character, Tom Ward, is 12 years old in the books (it’s a series, of course) in the film he’s 33-year-old Ben Barnes. “Seventh Son” is based on the 2004 English novel “The Spook’s Apprentice,” but the movie retains only the basic premise and the characters’ names and occupations. If you bought the book, don’t throw it out. It’s a clownish performance at odds with his superpowered character, and with most everyone else speaking in plain American accents, it’s glaringly out of place. Playing a “spook” - that is, a master witch hunter - Bridges does his version of Johnny Depp’s cracked Captain Jack from the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies. If you hire Jeff Bridges, put a “no funny voices” clause in his contract. Now playing at the Beaucatcher, Biltmore and Carolina theaters.Ī few valuable lesson from the flop fantasy film “Seventh Son”: Dear filmmakers: Set your fantasy film in Nowheresville, medieval or not, and no one will care. ![]() There are a lot things I’ll watch through to the end even if I’m not completely sold on it, but I had to push stop about halfway through on Seventh Son. My husband and I rented Seventh Son because it came and went in the theaters really fast. Jeff Bridges does his version of Johnny Depp’s cracked Captain Jack from the “Pirates” movies. I was looking forward to this movie and Jupiter Ascending, but both of them really disappointed me. ![]()
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