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 Alice (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." Rating: PG-13, for intense fantasy violence and action throughout, frightening images and brief strong languageīased on the first book in Joseph Delaney's The Wardstone Chronicles series - released as The Spook's Apprentice in Great Britain and as the more politically correct The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch in the United 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.īut 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). Cast: Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, Ben Barnes, Alicia Vikander, Olivia Williams, Kit Harington
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