SEVENTH SON (2014)
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Seventh Son is a 2014 action fantasy film directed by Sergei Bodrov, and starring Ben Barnes, Jeff Bridges, Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Olivia Williams with Antje Traue and Julianne Moore. It is loosely based on the 2004 novel The Spook's Apprentice by Joseph Delaney. The story centers on Thomas Ward, a seventh son of a seventh son, and his adventures as the apprentice of the Spook. After having its release date shifted numerous times, the film was released in France on December 17, 2014, and in Canada and the United States on February 6, 2015, by Universal Pictures. The film was a box office failure which received generally negative reviews from film critics and it earned $114 million against a production budget of $95 million.
Jeff Bridges as Master Gregory
Ben Barnes as Tom Ward
Julianne Moore as Mother Malkin
Alicia Vikander as Alice
Antje Traue as Bony Lizzie
Olivia Williams as Mam Ward
John DeSantis as Tusk
Kit Harington as William Bradley
Djimon Hounsou as Radu
Gerard Plunkett as Inquisitor
Jason Scott Lee as Urag
Sam Claflin was in negotiations to star as Tom Ward,[7] but in June 2011, negotiations with Claflin fell through and Ben Barnes replaced him.[8] Production began on March 19, 2012, in Vancouver, British Columbia.[9] In February 2013, Legendary Pictures agreed to give $5 million to recently bankrupt visual effects house Rhythm and Hues Studios so they would complete their work on Seventh Son.[10]
By the time production wrapped, the budget had ballooned to as much as $110 million.[5] China Film Group made an "eight-figure" equity investment in the film, as well as the adaptation of Warcraft (2016).[11]
Seventh Son grossed $17.2 million in North America and $93.4 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $114.2 million.[6]
North America
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The film featured in the list of "The Riskiest Box Office Bets of 2015" published by screenrant.com.[18] The film posted a gross of $295,000 from the Thursday preview.[19] The film earned an opening day gross of estimated $2,300,000, an estimated $3,000,000 for its second day and $1,801,000 for its third day.[20] The film was a commercial disaster, according to Variety the film has a "projected loss of $85 million",[21] earning only $7,101,000 weekend gross, by playing in 2,875 theaters, with a $2,470 per-theater average and ranking #4.[6]
Other territories
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The film opened in France and Lebanon on December 21, 2014, a month and a half ahead of its North America release, and earned $1.2 million.[22] The following weekend the film added $18.4 million from 24 new markets where it debuted at #1 in Russia, Romania, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Russia opened with $8.6 million while Spain generated $1.2 million.[23]
Critical response
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On Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, the film has an approval rating of 12% based on 119 reviews and an average rating of 3.8/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Seventh Son squanders an excellent cast and some strange storyline ingredients, leaving audiences with one disappointingly dull fantasy adventure."[24] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 30 out of 100 based 32 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[25] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.[26]
Peter Debruge of Variety gave a negative review criticizing the film's tired plot, special effects, lack of chemistry, and of the cast's performances such as that of Bridges' and Moore's, and calling the film an "over-designed" and "under-conceived fantasy epic".[27] The Hollywood Reporter's Jordan Mintzer writes that it "takes an A-list crew and cast—including Moore sporting a black feather dress and matching eyeliner—and goes nowhere new with it, investing lots in VFX and locations but not enough in an original story anyone cares about".[17] Los Angeles Times' Betsey Sharkey said that the movie would "certainly be a contender" for "the worst movie of the year"; she notes, "For acclaimed Russian director Bodrov, this foray into English-language filmmaking is a rare fail. Bodrov certainly knows his way around epics, as his excellent Oscar-nominated films Mongol and Prisoner of the Mountains attest. Seventh comes as a shock. Virtually every performance falls flat, aided no doubt by the vapid dialogue. And Bridges is saddled with an awful accent he never masters."[28] USA Today's Claudia Puig says, "The 3-D effects are off-putting: Smoke spills out at the audience, and the camera swooshes high and careens over cliffs. It's more dizzying than dazzling. Further mucking up the attempts at magical fantasy is a distracting, bombastic musical score and feeble attempts at humor. Seventh Son is thoroughly ill-conceived, a pale imitation of its more adventurous and breathtaking brethren."[29] The Guardian's Jordan Hoffman gave the movie two out of five stars and explained, "While Seventh Son has trace of Saturday afternoon fun, its unoriginal nature gets the better of it... There are flashes where you think Seventh Son is going to be wise enough to put a spin on the standard script, but by the end it just devolves into another loud, messy CGI brawl. How much more ruined masonry can moviegoers take? A lot, it seems, as this genre seems to be in no danger of going away."[30]
The New York Daily News' Joe Neumaier was more complimentary of Moore's and Bridges' leading performances. "Saints be praised for whatever strange magic brought Bridges and Moore together for their own little mini–Big Lebowski reunion, whether it was playfulness, paychecks or an open spot on their calendars. Because they save this mediocre medieval fantasy adventure from the ash heap."[31]
