Rating of
1.5/4
Season of the Witch Review
Myviewing - wrote on 01/10/11
No I'm not talking about Halloween III, this is actually a supernatural thriller about a handful of knights who must exorcise a Witch who was apparently the cause of the Black Plague. Sound cool so far? How about adding in the fact that the aspiration of the story is overbloated and never really works? How about calling it basically a road trip movie crossed over with a period drama? How about adding in really huge plot holes? For example, when did it ever snow in the Middle East? What's more the story seems to be taking an attempt at many different philosophic questionings and it never really seems to have the time frame or willingness to take stabs at them. In fact the ending of the film had me asking, "Who wrote this movie?! M. Night Shyamalan?" Probably a bit too much credit for Mr. Shamalamadingdong, but I was still wondering that. It's not all downhill though, the scenery isn't too bad and the acting while it isn't spectacular isn't really ever all that painful. Also if you go in expecting to see a fun action movie like I did to some degree, there's another dose of dissapointment because the CGI is more blatant than what I saw in the trailer for Twilight Saga: New Moon back in the day, and I'm guessing the same guy who did the camera work for the first Alien Vs. Predator movie also did this because of the shoddy camerawork. Which I mean anyway that whenever there's action on the screen it's either too dark or too close up and when he actually does get it right, it's over in three seconds. So yeah, I was kind of dissapointed with this one, but I didn't exactly have very huge hopes to begin with anyway, so I survived.
