Movie Review – Season of the Witch

Posted by getrightwords on Jan 12, 2011 in Movie Review | 5 comments

Director: Dominic Sena

Cast: Nicholar Cage, Ron Perlam & Clair Foy

The latest of the new movies of 2011 is Season of the witch. It is a supernatural period movie which spans a rather short reel time of 95 minutes. Its Motion Picture Rating (MPAA) is PG-13 owing to violence and thematic content. Bulk of the movie has been shot in Austria, Croatia and Hungary. It featured at the 37^th Annual People’s Choice Awards and was released in theatres across US on the 7^th Jan, 2011. Relativity Media made the movie at a budget of US $40 million. Interestingly, Season of the Witch sees director Dominic Sena and actor Nicholas Cage join hands once again.

Season of the Witch Movie Poster

The plot of the movie is centred on a 14^th century community which is seething with Black Plague. The church is under pressure from the population to end the disease. A witch is accused of performing sorcery and bringing the disease to the town. In an attempt to combat the plague, the church instructs two knights (Behmen and Felson, played by Cage &Perlman resp.) who have just returned from the crusades to relocate the accused witch (Anna, played by Foy) to a distant monastery where monks will decide Anna’s fate. The knights agree on the condition that Anna is given a fair trial. On reaching the monastery, the group finds that Anna is actually a demon using the girl’s body as a vessel. The demon tries to destroy the last copy of the ancient book of wisdom. In the end, Behemen kills the demon and frees Anna’s body, dying himself shortly afterwards.

The movie review by Reuters says that Season of the Witch has won almost universal scorn of the critics. It is dull and appears meddled up, with the story sprinting to the end instead of advancing meaningfully. Nicholas Cage looks completely out of place in a period movie. Also, Claire Foy doesn’t quite fit into a witch’s character. Lastly, almost every movie review of Season of the witch agrees that the visual effects and the editing of the movie take away value from it.

Season of the Witch Wallpaper

The movie’s production design, photography and costumes are good. Ron Perlman plays his role as Felson quite well too. All in all, Season of the Witch is a dull supernatural thriller which fails to captivate audience. However, pout of the new movies, Season of the Witch fairs better than Country Strong.

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