what is the plot of the movie seventh son

The fourth billed cast member dies in the first five minutes of the movie. Instead, he dies in the first five minutes of the film. You’d think the addition of Kit Harington (“Game of Thrones”), a seasoned veteran of onscreen medieval brooding, would at least somewhat compensate for director Sergei Bodrov’s choice to cast a department store mannequin as the protagonist.

That’s the plot, explained with equal effort and ambition as the film’s script puts forth. A farm boy who becomes a knight’s apprentice thanks to a prophecy or something, Ben Barnes’s Tom Ward is without a doubt the least interesting film protagonist in the history of fantasy movies. And his mysteriously Southern Californian accent (especially for a British actor). The only thing the film is concerned with is lead actor Ben Barnes’s (“The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian”) face. Even though the film’s post-production team clearly did its best to make “Seventh Son” presentable, the ugly parts of the film frequently stick out for example, a Chewbacca-esque Orc character’s terrible mask and makeup are barely veiled by a layer of CGI, and the “magical” death animation for several witch characters seems (unintentionally) slightly different each time one dies.

This philosophy of hiding mediocre filmmaking pervades many aspects of “Seventh Son,” especially in the film’s terrible fight choreography, which is mostly hidden by close-ups and a shaky camera. “Seventh Son” has blurry, muddy visual effects, the kind that aren’t concerned with the viewer catching its imperfections. Of that we can never be sure, but it certainly seems evident that very little money went towards the film’s CGI.

What is the plot of the movie seventh son