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Season of the Witch looks like it could be a pretty effective Dark Ages action movie...were it not for Nic Cage. There are things Cage can do really, really well, and in fact, he's getting his best notices in years thanks to Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, which opens today in some cities.

However, he looks suspiciously out of place here, along with Ron Perlman, as the only Americans in 14th century Europe, who are providing a kind of police escort to a witch believed to be responsible for the Black Plague. Witch though she may be, history will prove that she has nothing to do with the plague. Thanks, science.

But as I said, it looks like it has a lot of pieces in place, and the witch - Claire Foy - might be one of those surprising little breakout performances. But Perlman and Cage should have tried accents or the producers should have tried other actors. There's just simply too wild an inconsitency between the setting and the other characters and Hellboy and Memphis Raines. It might be fine in a movie that doesn't look like it has any life to it at all, but based on the limited amount of stuff we've seen, that doesn't appear to be the case here.

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