At least GONE and swordfish stunned featured heroes anti-action (Nicolas Cage, Hugh Jackman), tasty eye candy (Angelina Jolie), Halle Berry and juicy characters support, as well as waterfalls singularly on top and motor of the action sequences.
Even the graces of economy, with the Crusaders, dazed-search mostly superfluous supporting cast and the colossal squandering of appearances by the great Christopher Lee and the oft exceptional Ulrich Thomsen has no season of the witch. And forget the idea that it could contain horror or supernatural; elements those who have watered down by the PG-13 rating in the U.S. and their residues is weak tea, at best.
Really, the motivation that bit to see the film is to catch a glimpse of talented Claire Foy. She plays a character called alternately "the Girl" and "the Black witch", and Foy does more with less than anyone in the image.
BEHMEN (Cage) and Felson (Ron Perlman) are fighting valiantly in the Crusades for years until the Behmen is killing a woman apparently innocent. Outraged and dismayed - 14th-century equivalent of "I'm shocked, shocked to find that killing innocent happens here!"-Behmen decides he will fight is no longer for the Church. He and Felson desert the army and head for home to discover that their homeland is suffering from a terrible plague. The Church, represented by a local Cardinal (Christopher Lee, severely underutilized) blame on a young woman called the black Witch (Claire Foy).
Sentenced to death for desertion and the black witch may be innocent, Behmen undertakes to deliver to a monastery far to what promises Cardinal of detection will be a "fair trial". The monks will then perform a ritual to rid the Earth of its influence, in the hope that the black plague that has descended on Europe in the 14th century will cease once justice was provided.
Join the journey is a priest named Debelzaq (Stephen Campbell Moore), a Knight named Eckhart (Ulrich Thomsen), a swindler named Hagamar (Stephen Graham) and a serious young man, named Kay (Robert Sheehan). None of them are anything that flesh to canon, play no role in the narrative and doing nothing, but the execution time of padding.
You can't help but feel that the film might be stronger if Behmen and Felson took the only daughter fighting items and occasional manifestations of power supernatural. The Witch of black in the person of Claire Foy, has the potential to be a great character, why Foy, with her yet misleading penetrating eyes, facial expressions and body language seems fully on the task. Perhaps the team to a boiling point trio have issues for the financial survival plus and allowed Cage and Perlman to develop some chemistry between their characters, two men who are supposed to best friends.
Instead of this, accused witch is kept in a cage while others painfully's "protection", the fight against the most hackneyed perils - bridge round-shouldered on a deep gorge, wolves in a forest - with no plume. It is only in penultimate sequence the film of the that we finally have an overview of the kind of stupidity out-sized which might have made travel a great adventure instead of a boring work, with only the occasional wisecrack to relieve boredom (including a huge, anachronistic groaner from the end).
SENA, making once KALIFORNIA, a ragged yet intermittently interesting flick, serial killer might have a project on time and budget and worked with Cage, but he brings absolutely nothing interesting season of the witch, or visually, uneven rhythm in performance sometimes inducing snoring.
As already mentioned, Claire Foy is the only bright in this dark disorder. Hoped she gets here is an opportunity to shine in another, better movie and Nicolas Cage gets more intense and crazy soon - because it is serious and sincere don't cut it for action heroes.
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