Whilst I was off work last week We attended the Cinema, as it was a special occasion we went to the Cineworld at Brighton Marina instead of the Crawley Branch – I understand if you are intimidated by my champagne lifestyle – Anyway we saw the Sorcerers Apprentice, This film stared Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel in the lead roles with Cage the Sorcerer Balthazar and Baruchel the titular apprentice. The film was basically what you would expect from a Disney film – is it just me or are all films playing very safe and by the numbers at the moment? It again brought home the question of what happened to the image of a cool leading man as Baruchel seems to always be playing a nerd who is lost in the world of “normal” people even whilst he is busy shooting a plasma ball, personally I find it quite an achievement that they can take a guy who is shooting plasma, saving his friend and getting the girl and not make him cool but somehow Disney manage to pull it off. But I guess we just live in the age of the nerd, after all the biggest name in Hollywood at the moment seems to be Robert Pattinson who nobody can say isn’t strange looking.
Anyway the film is saved, as most seem to be these days by Cage who as another experienced Hollywood star plays his part in his usual humoured yet gravely serious way, there is of coarse a homage to fantasia with dancing mops etc… but it is reasonably well done, I would suggest that the main villain of the film is slightly stupid as he tends to feel that having too much help might give him an unfair chance of winning so waits until one helper is dead before calling another (Surely more sensible to build an army.) but I guess if it was not for the stupidity of movie bad guys then good guys would never get to Cages age in the first place.
There were also bit parts for Monica Bellucci (the Matrix Trilogy) and Alice Krige (Borg Queen from Start Trek First Contact) who appear only briefly but in my opinion without cage this film would be showing at 6am on the Disney Chanel in about two months
Anyway the film is saved, as most seem to be these days by Cage who as another experienced Hollywood star plays his part in his usual humoured yet gravely serious way, there is of coarse a homage to fantasia with dancing mops etc… but it is reasonably well done, I would suggest that the main villain of the film is slightly stupid as he tends to feel that having too much help might give him an unfair chance of winning so waits until one helper is dead before calling another (Surely more sensible to build an army.) but I guess if it was not for the stupidity of movie bad guys then good guys would never get to Cages age in the first place.
There were also bit parts for Monica Bellucci (the Matrix Trilogy) and Alice Krige (Borg Queen from Start Trek First Contact) who appear only briefly but in my opinion without cage this film would be showing at 6am on the Disney Chanel in about two months
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