Emily and me went to see this last weekend.
Using the legend of Merlin to base the magic, we find a Sorcerer searching for the Prime Merlinian, and when he finds him teaching him magic and how to defend the Earth from the evil Morgana and Horvath.
Cast: Nicolas Cage - "Balthazar Blake", Jay Baruchel -"Dave", Alfred Molina - "Maxim Horvath", Teresa Palmer -"Becky Barnes" and Monica Bellucci -" Veronica"
Written by Matt Lopez (Race to Witch Mountain), Doug Miro (Prince of Persia) and Carlo Bernard (Prince of Persia)
Soundtrack by Trevor Rabin
Directed by Jon Turtletaub (National Treasure 1 and 2)
What I liked: The music, Molina, Bellucci (even though she didn't really do that much). Most of the special effects and the mop scene, but they really had to include that!
What I didn't like: The story was pretty weak, Baruchel squeaky voice! The ending.
Summary: Overall this wasn't too bad, better than I expected, Cage wasn't as good as he has been but nowhere near as bad either. Turtletaub gets a good performance from him as seen in the National Treasure films. The star of this film was Molina, the best lines, the best delivery just really good throughout and not many could have played Horvath any better. The rest of the cast were fine, and the script was ok, it had some quite funny moments.
Some of the CGI and Special Effects were very good. I liked the dragon and the tin eagle.
What let it down was the story just a little weak and we've been here before. Also the final scenes seemed rushed and maybe they could have done a lot more with it, the ending just seemed to go out with a whimper instead of a bang!
I do like the soundtrack as well, some good pieces of music on it.
Overall: I liked this on the whole, Molina was the star along with some good CGI (7/10)
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