When I was little my brothers and I played games in the backyard. They were ones of big fantasy adventure that after a while just became tiresome,and didn't really have anything to with character. They were thinly scripted with whatever the heck popped up in our heads at that given moment. That's what Seventh Son feels like. It's thinly put together and messy ,but there is something that I also have to remember about those games. They were maybe just a little bit...fun. Seventh Son is about Tom Ward (Ben Barnes) a seventh son of a seventh son. He is recruited by Master Gregory (Jeff Bridges) to fight Mother Malkin(Julianne Moore). Everything else about the story doesn’t matter. There's a romance going on in there somewhere,but it's not like the audience cares. The story of the film is not exactly it's strongest asset. Then again this is an action/fantasy adventure movie in the middle of February. There is some basis in the story from the books that inspired it (which were my alternative Harry Potter when I was little), but it's all stripped down to bare bones. This makes the film seem cheap,and really thin. The characters here are archetypes,and are played that way making them forgettable. The "dialogue scenes" are split up by some monster set pieces that involve swords and large beasts,and they are somewhat engaging. They're at least are short enough so that the initial excitement doesn’t leave you. While the film is put together with a really crap job the makers were at least smart enough to make sure that your not sitting in the theater for too long. This movie covers all the bases of a normal action film,but does it in a tight 107 minutes. For a semi-big budget film that's a surprise. It starts,and just goes. Ok Tom gets picked up, first action beat, villain time, second action beat...etc. The film is swift,and does a nice job with that. But a junky movie doesn't need to run too long. That still doesn't mean it's not junky though. I give Seventh Son a 5 out of 10.
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