Nicolas Cage and Director Dominic Sena have another forgettable collaboration with the tepid Season of the Witch. Their first film, the remake of Gone in Sixty Seconds, was two notches above terrible; so maybe this means they're moving in the right direction. Cage stars as medieval knight Behman. Tired of the senseless killing in the crusades, Behman and his knight cohort Felson (Ron Perlman) desert the army and attempt to go back home. They are caught trying to find provisions in a town decimated by the black death (bubonic plague). The town's dying Cardinal (Christopher Lee) offers them a chance to redeem themselves by escorting a supposed witch (Claire Foy) to a monastery. The church believes she is the source of the plague and must be executed in a special ceremony using a sacred text.

The first thing that struck me about this film was how beautiful everyone's teeth are. In a film that went out of its way to be as realistic as possible in re-creating the grime and despair of the black death, it's hilarious to see every character with gleaming pearly whites. Seriously, it's almost as if everyone went to the dentist the day before they started shooting. I hate to be a picky critic, but something like that just sticks with me and I can't get over it throughout the entire film.

It's not all bad though, not by a longshot. The relationship between Behman and Felson is great. Cage and Perlman have screen chemistry and really prop up Season of the Witch. These two characters are interesting in their own right, and would work in other stories as well. I guess it depends on the box office performance of this film, but I would actually like to see these characters in other adventures. Apparently they kicked some major ass in the crusades, so maybe there's a good backstory that can be spun from that.

The best comparison I can make to Season of the Witch is to the work of German director Uwe Boll. He's made a career of video game adaptations and genre horror films, insert Bloodrayne and In the Name of the King here. If you can sit through an Uwe Boll movie, and be genuinely entertained; then run, don't walk, to see Season of the Witch. If you wouldn't watch an Uwe Boll movie unless a gun was to your head, then steer clear of this one.