Yet another Nic Cage movie. He must have some mortgage payments due or something. I saw this instead of The Fighter (sorry, Clay!) and it was not a good choice. I was suckered in by the promise of witchcraft! A promise the movie failed to deliver, by the way.
Here's the scoop for people interested in things like plot: Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman are crusaders who end up disillusioned by the Church and the constant combat. They desert and are caught in a town ravaged by plague. The cardinal of the town offers them a get-out-of-jail-free if they will transport an accused witch to a distant monastery for trial and judgment since it has the last surviving copy of The Key of Solomon. They say no but end up doing it anyway. So they set off with a goofy little guide (the dude who play Al Capone in Boardwalk Empire), an assholish priest, a local soldier, and the alleged witch riding in an iron cage. About halfway to the monastery, they get joined by an altarboy who wants to be a knight. The journey is all kinds of fucked-up because crazy things keep happening which may or may not be related to the possible witch and when they finally get to the monastery the shit really hits the fan.
The middle part of this movie is actually pretty entertaining. The beginning is pointless and has nothing to do with the overall story. It exists purely to set up atmosphere. Like the cutscene at the beginning of a video game. By contrast, the middle part has Ron Perlman. Automatically awesome, right there. The end of the movie...Well, when I say SyFy Original, I hope you'll know what I mean. It's pure CGI creature-feature and demotes this movie from slash-and-hack "B" to made-for-cable "D"-list.
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