The Seeker (2007)
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Reviews Counted:89
Fresh:12
Rotten:77
Average Rating:3.9/10
Consensus: The magic of the book is lost in translation with The Seeker, due to its clumsy plot and lack of heart.
Theatrical Release:Oct 5, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $8,746,699
Synopsis: Based on Susan Cooper's 1973 Newbery Award-winning fantasy novel, THE DARK IS RISING, director David L. Cunningham's 2007 film follows the adventures of young protagonist Will Stanton (Alexander... [More]
Starring: Alexander Ludwig, Christopher Eccleston, Ian McShane, Frances Conroy
Director: David L. Cunningham
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Reviews for The Seeker
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 0.5/4 |
a lot of shouting offered up as an ineffectual camouflage to the picture's complete lack of ambition. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Sloppy, lifeless storytelling so limp it guarantees no sequels will be made. Full Review |
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2/4 |
The Seeker is great-looking and well-acted, but unlike the Potter books and films, there's no sense that it's about anything more than the throwing-balls-of-smoke and mind-melding that we see onscreen. Full Review |
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 3/5 |
It's important, when criticising some of the more clichéd elements here - the dark versus the light, the Tolkein parallels, the quests - to bear in mind that this film is aimed at older children, not your average jaded film critic. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Disappointing adaptation of a great kids' book. Full Review |
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2/4 |
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1.5/4 |
Not-too-impressive CG effects and frenetic camera work but cannot mask what is--or, rather, what isn't there. Full Review |
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The excessive strobe effects may trigger epileptic fits, but the movie itself will induce narcolepsy. Full Review |
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An orgy of portents that runs out of oomph. Full Review |
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By Americanising the hero and grotesquely distorting the plot, they can only alienate the fan-base and confuse the newcomer. Full Review |
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2/5 |
A moderate Potter-teen fantasy about an American kid who comes to little old England with his family (dad's on some kind of academic posting) to find that he is the boy-king leader of a group of supernatural warriors. Full Review |
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An uncanny and unholy blend of The Fifth Element, The Sixth Sense and The Seventh Seal. Full Review |
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1/5 |
The Dark is Rising is one of those awful sorcery tales where a spotty young boy (Alexander Ludwig) suddenly gets to save the Earth from supernatural creeps such as Christopher Eccleston. Full Review |
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1.5/5 |
Not very likely to seize that Potter market, this is a disappointing film that starts out okay but goes rapidly downhill, thanks to rudimentary characterisation and storytelling that's designed more to accommodate gratuitous action. Full Review |
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2/5 |
A terrible bodge. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Cheap-looking, mostly cheerless stuff. Full Review |
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1/6 |
A total dud. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Imagine Time Bandits confined to a boring Berkshire village and drained of colour, and you can see why this pig’s ear of Susan Cooper’s well-received children’s story went belly-up at the US box office. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Off-the-shelf teen fantasy not likely to satisfy the post-Potter/LOTR crowd but guaranteed to enrage fans of the source novel. The newly added quasi-religious overtones don’t help either. Full Review |
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