Seventh Son

Our latest Netflix endeavour, Seventh Son is a 2014 fantasy movie with actually quit a cast...

Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander... add to that 5 minutes of "Jon Snow" so you can add him on the movie poster and you can have a "not crappy, unknown fantasy movie".

Based on the novel The Spook's Apprentice by Joseph Delaney, it follows Thomas Ward as he is enlisted by Gregory to become a witch hunter.  Being the Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, and son of a witch to boot, he also bears a mighty talisman called the Umbran stone.

When Mother Malik, queen of the witches, escapes her prison, it comes to Gregory and Thomas to set out and try to destroy her.  To that end, Gregory first starts training Thomas in the way of a Spook, how a hunter of the paranormal is called.  But he meets and falls in love with a witch called Alice.  The niece of mother Malik, she has been sent out to spy on the spooks as they progress.

Alice will betray Thomas and steal the stone, but doubts her aunt more and more and tries to convince her mother to revolt against Mother Malkin.  When our heroes gather for the final battle against darkness (with mind you, a bit of an anti-climatic defeat of Malkin), she turns back to their side and together they are victorious, overthrowing evil and Thomas becoming the new "last of the Falcons", the order of the spooks.

It was an entertaining, though not the most fantastically made ever movie in my opinion.  But for a relaxing evening and the "urge" to watch something that might actually inspire your gaming scenarios, this isn`t to bad at all a movie, and the special effects are actually well done.  While the movie does give the vibe of "so much more could have been achieved", the fact it isn`t well known at all "warns" you of this form of underperformance after all.  It`s NOT a hidden and overseen gem!

So if you have nothing to do and just want to watch an easy on the mind flick, this is a decent choice.