Two 14th-century Crusaders--Behmen (Cage) and Felson (Perlman), who abandoned the cause for moral reasons--are forced to escort a girl (Foy) suspected of spreading the Black Plague through witchcraft to a distant Hungarian monastery to be exorcised and presumably end the plague. An abundance of ineffective CGI demons and evil witches destroys any historical legitimacy and makes this nothing more than an overblown medieval buddy flick with shoddy, out-of-place, and unfunny dialogue.
Nowadays, when the name “Nicolas Cage” graces a movie poster, it usually means the viewing audience will be in for a bit of wide-eyed screaming, stuff blowing up, and maybe a scene of Cage sending a woman flying into a wall for reasons no one can adequately explain. Well, in ...Read More