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Season of the Witch (2011)

PG-13  |   |  Action, Adventure, Fantasy  |  7 January 2011 (USA)
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14th-century knights transport a suspected witch to a monastery, where monks deduce her powers could be the source of the Black Plague.

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A 14th century Crusader returns to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. A beleaguered church, deeming sorcery the culprit of the plague, commands the two knights to transport an accused witch to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence. A priest, a grieving knight, a disgraced itinerant and a headstrong youth who can only dream of becoming a knight join a mission troubled by mythically hostile wilderness and fierce contention over the fate of the girl. When the embattled party arrives at the abbey, a horrific discovery jeopardises the knight's pledge to ensure the girl fair treatment, and pits them against an inexplicably powerful and destructive force. Written by Momentum Pictures

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$40,000,000 (estimated)

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£559,769 (UK) (7 January 2011)

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$24,823,283 (USA) (18 March 2011)
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Nic Cage cashed another paycheck.
13 July 2011 | by (Kansas City, MO, USA) – See all my reviews

"If you don't have anything nice to say ..." Is this an adequate review?

An embarrassingly bad, schlocky swords and sorcery movie starring Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas, National Treasure, Adaptation) as a heroic crusader tasked with transporting a witch to a remote monastery in central Europe during the time of the Black Death. Accompanied by his fellow crusader (Ron Perlman -- Hellboy I and II, City of Lost Children) and a young priest (Stephen Campbell Moore -- Bright Young Things, Amazing Grace), the "witch" soon proves to be not-what-she seems and before anybody knows it -- all hell breaks loose.

This is a film that is rather stupid when it begins ... and it becomes a bit stupider and than more stupider and even more stoopiderer as it goes along (I groan each time I type that).

It could be entertaining enough for others but I just had too many problems with dialogue (references to things not in existence in the Dark Ages) and bad jokes and Nicolas Cage's irritating performance (this guy is an Oscar-winner and he can be excellent; but these paycheck films always elicit terrible performances out of him).

There is enough action and some special effects that could impress ... but by the plot's "big reveal" (not really so big) I'd had enough. Seriously ... now I will heed that advice I have been told so many times before. I don't have anything nice to say so ...


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this, or 'black death'? sErpEnt_v
This is defiantly the most underrated movie of 2011 in my opinion. BlazeTheMovieFan
How come no one from the UK/Ireland in this flick... APODDER
Whats up with the doctor's masks? gijsraeven
Love Nic Cage, but this movie was terrible jonnyblade3151
They should have left the demon in the girl!!! bthespoon
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