Truman Kohler-Katz
Staff Writer
“The Seventh Son” is a movie that can be summed up in one word: Confusing. The acting was all right all around, but with terrible writing and direction, a film can only do so much. The film collapses due to this; it doesn’t try at all to explain anything to the viewer. The best way I can describe the experience is it was as if a little kid was telling the story jumping from point A to point B with zero sense involved in the matter.
The other issue is the overall look of the film. One of the first scenes is of a witch burning and the look of it made me think of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” which immediately made it impossible to take the movie seriously. The design goes back once again to my kid analogy with a broken concept of medieval times.
The only thing of worth that the movie delivers is a little bit of humor and even then it is very childish; a gag here and a gag there with very limited sense. With that said, I will have to give the best performance nod to Jeff Bridges, who seems to be the only actor attempting to really perform in the movie.
Overall, this isn’t a movie you want to spend money to see. Perhaps when it comes to online streaming, it would be a good selection to put on in the background and zone out to, and perhaps if you pay enough attention you’ll say “What?” in this fantasy fever dream. Grade: D+