Disillusioned by the Crusades, knights Behmen and Felson are prevailed upon to escort a suspected witch from plague-infested somewhere to plague-infested somewhere else.
This project features Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman as the two knights, a handful of others in featured parts, and people called Szabo as everyone else in the cast and crew. I'm guessing it was a project financed by the Hungarian Film Commission or similar.
Thanks to a pre-title sequence, we know that there is definitely some sinister supernatural manifestation going on, so the captive girl may indeed be guilty of witchcraft. Without giving away who, what or why, the climax does have a dodgy CGI critter up to no good.
The script is a hoot. It makes no concession to mediaeval phraseology whatsoever and is resolutely 21st century throughout (Roy Scheider's famous Jaws ad lib is referenced in "I think we're going to have to get more Holy Water.").
The acting is functional, the makeup and costuming is good (and often revolting), there is lots of action (which often coyly turns its head rather than display any real violence), there is a sense of production value which may be partly illusory, and there is an opening montage of fighting during the Crusades which goes on far too long after it has made its point.
In summary, while I quite enjoyed it, it was pretty cheesy, and not worthy at all.
This project features Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman as the two knights, a handful of others in featured parts, and people called Szabo as everyone else in the cast and crew. I'm guessing it was a project financed by the Hungarian Film Commission or similar.
Thanks to a pre-title sequence, we know that there is definitely some sinister supernatural manifestation going on, so the captive girl may indeed be guilty of witchcraft. Without giving away who, what or why, the climax does have a dodgy CGI critter up to no good.
The script is a hoot. It makes no concession to mediaeval phraseology whatsoever and is resolutely 21st century throughout (Roy Scheider's famous Jaws ad lib is referenced in "I think we're going to have to get more Holy Water.").
The acting is functional, the makeup and costuming is good (and often revolting), there is lots of action (which often coyly turns its head rather than display any real violence), there is a sense of production value which may be partly illusory, and there is an opening montage of fighting during the Crusades which goes on far too long after it has made its point.
In summary, while I quite enjoyed it, it was pretty cheesy, and not worthy at all.