Read more ‘Still Alice’ Trailer: Julianne Moore Grapples With Alzheimer’s Diagnosisīodrov is best known for his Oscar-nominated drama Prisoner of the Mountains, which he followed with international action flicks including Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Kahn. Otherwise, the film bears some kind of subtext about powerful women being scorned in a world of men, but that idea is never fully exploited by the filmmakers, who ask special effects maestro John Dykstra (the original Star Wars) to carry much of the narrative weight as he dishes out dragons, warlocks and digital creatures galore. It’s not hard to see where this is leading, with master and apprentice joining hands after the usual mishaps, eventually making their way to the mountaintop lair of evil queen Mother Malkin (Moore), who has decided to unleash havoc for no other clear reason than that Bridges’ character dumped her for his wife a while back. When he’s quickly disposed of, Gregory finds his next sidekick in Tom Ward ( Ben Barnes of The Chronicles of Narnia), a naive farmhand with much to learn about the dark forces, especially when he falls for a gorgeous enchantress (Swedish beauty Alicia Vikander, A Royal Affair) doubling as a spy for the bad girls. The first trainee is portrayed by Kit Harington, who looks like he wandered off the HBO set in his Jon Snow garb and somehow landed here.
Gregory is assisted in his duties by a “seventh son of a seventh son” accomplice - a young man born with prophetic visions of doom.
The good guys are led by war-torn wino Master Gregory - played by Bridges with a gobbled-up foreign accent, as if Sean Connery had stuffed his face with mashed potatoes and tried to say things like: “You live in a world where legend and nightmare are real.”
Read more Legendary, Universal Sign 15-Picture Release Deal With Imaxīut even these pros can go only so far with this deja-vu dragon, where two knights battle witches, ogres and other shape-shifting creatures for control of a forested kingdom that looks a lot like British Columbia (confirmed in the end credits). and as the more politically correct The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch in the States - the film also features an impressive writing team, with Matt Greenberg ( 1408) handling story and Charles Leavitt ( Blood Diamond) and Steven Knight ( Locke) sharing screenplay duties. Based on the first book in Joseph Delaney’s The Wardstone Chronicles series - released as The Spook’s Apprentice in the U.K.
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