Seventh
Son **
Dir: Sergei Bodrov. With: Ben Barnes, Julianne
Moore, Jeff Bridges, Alicia Vikander. 102 mins. Cert: 12A
Every now and again,
Hollywood relocates key talent to the wilds for the express purpose of spunking
millions of dollars over a cliff. Here’s one such occasion: a 3D mock-epic in
which beard-and-scenery-chewing witchhunter Jeff Bridges mentors third-choice
chosen one Ben Barnes to slay shapeshifting dragon lady Julianne Moore.
Director Sergei Bodrov opts for mindless overkill, stocking every Dante
Ferretti-designed set with kung fu Tartars and vengeful Vishnus, and hoping
we’ll be too psyched or numbed to notice the dubious
white-blando-puts-minorities-to-the-sword subtext. It’s lively-daft, but you do
find yourself wondering: all this expertise, and the best anybody could think
to do with it was this?
Seventh Son opens in cinemas nationwide today.
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