How to become a Master of the Order for a week. Logic, or rather its absence, is the main problem of this film. Like most of the modern representatives of this genre, "Seventh Son" has a magnificent visual range, good music and a pretty good acting. All together, it could be a great movie if the behavior of the characters is not stuporous every 3 minutes.
The plot begins with the fact that the powerful and evil witch Malkin is released from imprisonment and decides to take revenge on the witch who defeated her. During the first warning attack (scenic but stupid) she kills his apprentice. After that, the witch has to find a new follower. And it turns out to be a simple village guy who has been raising pigs all his life. That's the perfect way to kill the witch queen, according to the movie's logic. Nevertheless, the guy was very smart for a villager - he could read and write, knew ancient legends. Then the creators tried to explain this giftedness, but they turned out quite badly.
And then there's the craziness. Having taken a pig herder as a pupil, the witcher seriously expects that without any training and knowledge he will go to cut down monsters, and is very surprised when he turned out to be utter incompetence in this sense. He is going to teach him all the wisdom of the profession in just... 7 days. Who needs these tedious years of training, mountains of books read, alchemy and other labuda? As one character from the Soviet cartoon said - and so it will go! And it really happened, because this humble pig-herder guy turned into a ruthless killer in just 3-4 days, during which they drove, swam, crawled to the witch's castle. This castle, by the way, is not a castle at all, but a whole city, where a huge army of witches, monsters and stone samurai flock from all over the world. However, no matter how many of them there are, no matter how skillful killers they are, no matter how many witches they kill before the simple farm boy bravely enters the abode of darkness and single-handedly lays down all their mighty men.
It would seem that once the plot failed, you can try to enjoy the visual part. But it wasn't. The basis of each work in the genre of fantasy is the world where its events occur. He's not here. At all. There are only some unrelated locations - a castle, a city, a forest, etc. No names, no one inhabits it, no approximate geography. The protagonist teleports from one place to another to chat with the master and teleport again.
And against this background, another claim will be completely unserious – predictability. And the boredom that comes from her. The less time left before the end of the film, the less was the desire to watch it. Even the spectacular slaughter in the climax could not save me from yawning.
“The Seventh Son” can not be called one of the worst representatives of the genre – from this it is saved by makeup artists, costumers, masters of computer graphics and all those who are responsible for its visual part. However, the lack of basic logic turns a potentially interesting film into a high-budget kindergarten morning. This affected the events of the film, the characters, and the dialogue. This deprives any interest in what is happening, any empathy and pleasure from watching.
4 out of 10
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