Review of Seventh Son (2014) by Sor-El — 21 Mar 2015

What to say about this movie... It is a good way to spend an afternoon.

I've read the Wardstone Chronicles and has such, I know how much of the great world created by Joseph Delaney was left behind. And the full extent of the loss, represented by the Seventy Son, almost comes off has being an insult to the books.

But because this movie was not made to have sequels. When I went to watch it, I was already expecting a totally different world, and has such, I was able to have a good time watching this movie.

It's nothing that stands out, and even the brilliant performance of Jeff Bridges and the somewhat performance of Julianne Moore, the movie simply fails to achieve any meaningful height.

Simple story, good special effects, and a somewhat unbalanced cast, could not produce more, no matter who directed and produced this movie.

All in all it was good, not great, not awesome. Just good.

There was one detail above all that I loved. To see Jeff Bridges character John Gregory, live to pass on the mantle of spook to his apprentice and be able to retire, was indeed a beautiful touch. The one I'd loved to have seen at the end of the Warstone Chronicles.