Black Death (2010)

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   badblokebob

   Excellent film. I think those expecting endless medieval action (i.e. half the comments below me) were under the wrong impression of what the film was, which I can't say I blame them for from the advertising.
   
   As a Wicker Man-ish horror and a meditation on the nature of faith, however, I thought it functioned rather well. 11 years 2 months ago
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   Ceejzor

   Cool how they both went onto do Game Of Thrones, Sean Bean as Eddark Stark & Carice van Houten as Melisandre.
   
   The movie felt a little slow at times, but I feel if you like Sean Bean or Medieval period movies, this would be good for you, it show's the truth behind the Church back then.. faith is at time's a powerful thing & at other time's a very evil thing. 10 years 2 months ago
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   dombrewer

   I had low expectations for this latest film from British horror director Christopher Smith (his first film "Creep" was utter twaddle) with Sean Bean strapping on his muddy Lord of the Rings/Game of Thrones beard, broadsword and armour once more, but this turned out to be more interesting than my expectations allowed.
   Bean plays the Knight Ulric sent, with a reliable band of dirtied British character actors, to investigate a village where the titular plague has mysteriously bypassed, perhaps due to the sorcery of a fabled necromancer. They are joined by Osmund (Eddie Redmayne), a young monk leading them through the marshland, but secretly planning to desert his order to join his girlfriend. There are strong performances from John Lynch, Tim McInnerny and Carice Van Houten, barely recognisable from her most famous role in Verhoeven's "Black Book", and some nice atmospheric cinematography, although typically most of it is handheld and undermines much of the acting and art direction with its tiresome wobbling. Someone buy the man a tripod.
   The dialogue is frequently uninspired, but the premise is a strong one pitting Christians against Pagans in a full-blooded morality tale. Unsurprisingly no one comes away from that head to head looking terribly good, either morally or physically intact.
   I probably will go back now and see the rest of Smith's filmography that I've missed. Well, maybe not the one starring Danny Dyer, that really is too grim a prospect. 11 years 1 month ago

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