![]() ![]() What emerges is distressingly typical from Universal of late: another example of how the studio once responsible for the town’s finest monster movies (“Dracula,” “The Wolf Man”) now churns out ugly, cumbersome monstrosities (“Dracula Untold,” “The Wolfman”). It also makes sense to have put as much distance as possible between this film, directed by two-time Oscar nominee Sergei Bodrov (“Prisoner of the Mountains,” “Mongol”), and “Season of the Witch” - a comparably campy tale of medieval sorcery in which Nicolas Cage threw down the scenery-chewing gauntlet. ![]() 6, nearly a year later than originally planned - one shouldn’t be all that surprised to discover some pretty significant birth defects, among them a tired plot, some very unspecial effects, and a pair of grotesquely uneven performances from Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore.Ĭonsidering that Universal was still licking its wounds from the pricey Keanu Reeves debacle “47 Ronin” (like this project, an extravagant vfx-driven tentpole from a Russian director ill suited for Hollywood) when “Seventh Son” was supposed to open last February, it makes sense that the distributor opted to delay the film (which opened today in France) and fix what it could, giving Imax 3D treatment to what already feels rickety on a standard-sized screen. But given the unusually long gestation period for Universal’s film adaptation, “Seventh Son” - which opens in the U.S. ![]() Legend has is that the seventh son of a seventh son is b orn with certain special powers, which, in Joseph Delaney’s “Wardstone Chronicles” fantasy-lit series, include the ability to see supernatural beings and, potentially, to kill witches. ![]()
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