I saw this as part of research for a project I'm doing. As that it gave me some ideas so I'm happy with that. As another reviewer points out the dates of the battles in the beginning of the film are all wrong, moved to the 14th century.
As to the movie itself: yes it's horribly cliché, yes the all-American accents are pretty irritating, and yes the end is horrible, including the cgi-demon and the "riding off into the sunset" parts. But no, dear co-reviewer that there was a plague craze and all sorts of (modern mind) ridiculous explanations abounded. And yes women were burned and killed in other ways (and then burned) in the name of witch hunting. So this is not totally unrealistic. And of course there were "witches" knowing nature medicine and being able to heal people that contemporary medicine didn't know how to treat.
As a mildly entertaining and completely forgettable film however it works. I wouldn't recommend anyone paying to see this, but if you find it on Netflix and have nothing else to do, it's not totally worthless.
As to the movie itself: yes it's horribly cliché, yes the all-American accents are pretty irritating, and yes the end is horrible, including the cgi-demon and the "riding off into the sunset" parts. But no, dear co-reviewer that there was a plague craze and all sorts of (modern mind) ridiculous explanations abounded. And yes women were burned and killed in other ways (and then burned) in the name of witch hunting. So this is not totally unrealistic. And of course there were "witches" knowing nature medicine and being able to heal people that contemporary medicine didn't know how to treat.
As a mildly entertaining and completely forgettable film however it works. I wouldn't recommend anyone paying to see this, but if you find it on Netflix and have nothing else to do, it's not totally worthless.
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