The Seeker: The Dark is Rising (2007)

  This was not a good movie.  I think it was one of those YA adaptations that was supposed to be a series but never got off the ground.

Will Stanton (Alexander Ludwig) learns on his 14th birthday that he is actually part of a secret cabal of warriors fighting against the Dark.  Will is a Seeker, someone with the power to shift through time to locate six signs that will defeat the Dark representative, the Rider (Christopher Eccleston), for a thousand years or so.  But suddenly developing superpowers is a lot to take in when you're barely a teenager and Will struggles with his changing identity.

I can only assume the books are much better or no one would have let them get to be a series, either.  The plot of the movie is incredibly simplistic and a little boring.  Will manages to locate the signs with little to no actual opposition and the Rider does more posturing on horseback than anything menacing.  The whole thing felt very rushed and strangely without consequence.  It lacked anything remotely resembling creativity and everyone is better off now that it's been consigned to the scrapheap of history.