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Season of the Witch

Written by Jonathan Jacobs

Tis the season to be witchy. Is it true that Nicolas Cage will act in just about any movie to pay off his millions of dollars of debts? Yes. Does this impact his performances? No. This is a good news, bad news scenario for movie lovers. The good news is movie fans will receive more Cage films to cherish. The bad news is Cage will have to act at a feverish pace and will burn himself out. What’s more is Cage is not receiving blockbuster roles. He is no longer in the limelight. Season of the Witch is another hedge against debt inflation for Cage, but I will be damned if it is not absolutely scrumptious.

Behmen (Cage) and Felson (Ron Perlman) are 14^th century (the 1300s for those of you from Port Saint Lucie, FL) crusaders destined to save the world, one innocent victim at a time. Led by warmongering priests to the brink of hell (war is hell), Behmen and Felson are willing knights, both sworn to uphold the dictates of Jesus Christ or his messengers. That remains true until their commander orders them to attack unarmed women and children in order to overtake a small and strategically meaningless stronghold. The church has reasoned for madness and refuses to show mercy, this despite its claims of adherence to the prescriptions of the son of God. Choosing to go their own way, Behmen and Felson desert the crusading armies. Their destination is anyone’s guess but where they end up is truly what is important for the fate of the world.

Behmen and Felson happen upon a ramshackled castle. Once inside they are taken into custody by several disease-afflicted knights struggling to survive. The plague has hit hard across Arabia. Thousands have succumbed to its might and its virulence is unrelenting. Many of those living in the castle look sickly and pock marked. They have rashes and boils everywhere on their bodies. The castle’s church authorities believe the root cause of the plague is a young witch (Claire Foy) possessed by Satan himself. Being somewhat noble in their sensibilities, Behmen and Felson at first refuse to transport the young girl to the monks at a nearby stronghold for fear she will be burned and hanged without a fair trial. They are ignorant of the malignity that lurks inside her. Eventually, faced with rotting in a dungeon or shepherding the girl to the monk’s territory, the heroic knights decide that living another day is more valorous than rotting in a jail cell.

Behmen and Felson will not be traveling alone as their captors demand they take a holy priest, Debelzaq (Stephen Campbell Moore), a strong knight, Eckhart (Ulrich Thomsen), and a guide, Hagamar (Stephen Graham). Together, they must transport the girl across a threadbare bridge, through dangerous foggy woods, and through innumerable hardships. Once they reach the monks, the witch will be tried for being in collusion with the devil. Behmen insists the entire time that she deserves a fair trial.

Along their perilous journey, the witch escapes and causes a raucous. Eckhart is deceived and he runs into the drawn sword of their volunteer escort Kay (Robert Sheehan). Kay is awestruck by this turn of events and Eckhart, despite being one of the most interesting characters, is struck dead. You live by the sword, you get stabbed by the sword. The journeymen’s next challenge is dragging the witch, inside of her pull cart, across a nearly collapsed bridge. They barely escape this pitfall, but the action is intense. As if nearly plummeting to their deaths had not been rattling enough, the group has to face possessed wolves in a foggy, haunted forest. Another companion is killed, and the blame lies with the witch for invoking the demonic possession of a pack of canis lupus. Once their ranks are decimated, the monk’s castle is finally within sight.

The end stretch is filled with possessed monks, the devil in all his glory and strength, ancient scriptures and defensive rituals, and a whirlwind of action. Season of the Witch is a blend of Prince of Persia, Excalibur, and Kingdom of Heaven. It is equal parts comedy, disaster, suspense and perverse history. All in all, it is good fun. Never underestimate the talent and entertainment value of Nicolas Cage. He surprises and stuns every time. Even stripped of major roles, he turns mountains into molehills. With anyone else as the star this film would have suffered. With Cage it shines like a new nickel.

Jonathan Jacobs

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