Season of the Witch (2011– 95 mins) Nic Cage, Ron Perlman 

Behmen and Felson (Cage and Perlman) are knights of epic fighting proportion, who get tired of all the needless innocent slaying during their tours of duty in the crusades and unenlist themselves from the service to the self proclaimed mouth of God. It’s a time of dangerous health concerns as the black plague is ravaging the world threatening it’s very existence. The knights next order of business/job is to transport the witch suspected of being the cause of all the plague to a town where a sacred brotherhood of monks is waiting to cure her of her witchcraft and save the world. It’s sounds like a mouthful and a bunch of malarky but it boils down simpler explanation.

The simpler plot explanation—>  Cage is a bad-ass knight who has to bring a crazy ass witch to a random town with a band of a few men. Perlman is his big as hell wise cracking side-kick and also a bad-ass knight. As usual along the way there are some “forces” that be that will stand in the way of the band. And the constant undertone of is she a witch or isn’t she????

“Season of the Witch” is not a bad movie nor is it the fantasy laced action flick I think it could be. Yet, on the other hand I think it’s good that it was not all CG’d up with crazy monsters along the way, which might seem a bit like cheap tricks to get viewers. Instead it’s more action based and story based keeping you focused on the story of the witch and the band rather then what will they throw at them next. Don’t get me wrong (again) it’s not an art/story masterpiece either. It’s right on that line of not bad and not great of a movie. It’s not bad as the critics would have you believe, but it’s also not good enough to buy outright.

The good is the big two headliners. Cage and Perlman while not exactly what you would expect of medieval knights but they are believable, deliver a great buddy act, and are pretty funny in their little quips. The story is also not too long so it never gets too dull in one way or another. The bad? Well it also never WOWS you at all either. Some characters are never really fleshed out as much as we would like, and some of the extra happenings are not fully explained either. But most of the bad I can deal with since it’s kinda light and doesn’t really want us to think about everything.

Verdict–> I would say it’s a decent mid level recommendation. I wouldn’t grab it on the 1st look but if you are looking for something to put with another movie for a nice end of night mindless action movie then it fits nicely. I would grab it before a lot of the other indie crap that is out there. Another good cable movie to watch but not to buy for good.

EXTRA EXTRA!!! Yep a two-fer Tuesday in this review.

QUICK REVIEW –> Black Death–> I like Sean Bean (Lord of The Rings) so I decided to give it a try. Don’t make my mistake. It’s EASILY in the top 2-3 worst movies I will see this year. It’s a complete piece of crap and don’t even read the description in the red box. It sucks plain and simple. Don’t make me slap you up the back of the head like Jethro Gibbs when you tell me I was right it sucked… Just don’t watch it period!

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