The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising

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Blu B The biggest problem here is that there is no rules set for what Seekers can and can't do. Make things appear, transport to different times, and it all just feel random. Than you add in plot twists that are stupid and it becomes almost incoherent. This has no style at all. It looks like Sleepy Hollow at times, other times a boring fantasy flick, and other times just super boring and generic. The direction isn't that good at all. The pacing is terrible also again ebcause it's just random stuff this throws at you despite starting off pretty generic and harmless. The music is pretty generic and forgettable stuff too. The acting isn't the best either. The dialoge is very clunky, the "villians" are stupid, and it just doesn't work. Skip This. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 04/22/25 Full Review Elvis D The Seeker se basa en una serie de libros infantiles que sin duda mostraba potencial para ser una fantástica película. Tiene buenas escenas de acción con buenos efectos especiales y una historia interesante. Lo malo es que el guion se siente flojo, con falta de profundidad y algunos agujeros argumentales. La película tendría que haber sido más larga debido a lo corta que se siente y eso hubiera ayudado a profundizar más el argumento y sus personajes, ya que existe mucho más que se faltó ampliar y explicar. The Seeker es una película de fantasía que puede ser ideal para el público infantil, pero tristemente es una oportunidad desperdiciada que acabo dando como resultado una película olvidable. Mi calificación final para esta película es un 6/10. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 11/26/23 Full Review Audience Member While I understand 'artistic liberties,' literally the ONLY similarities between this movie and the book it's 'based' on are the character names and the signs themselves. While moving the timeline into the 2000's rather than the '70s is hard enough on the storyline, changing the Stanton family to newly arrived US citizens in England is a bulls#!t move in and of itself. Not only does this destroy half the plot, it makes most of the relationships impossible. The relationship between Will and his siblings is an important part of the book, and turning it from 'typical family issues' to 'older siblings desire to mentally destroy the youngest while mom and dad just shake their heads and smile' makes another third of the book impossible to manage to work into the plot. Of course, seeing as movies for adolescents and young adults only seem to have one type of plotline, Will is changed from his original 11 years old to somewhere around 16 - 17. This is, of course, a requirement, seeing as the next strange-as-hell move is to ADD A COMPLETELY NEW CHARACTER SO WILL HAS A LOVE INTEREST. Last, but ABSOLUTELY NOT LEAST, the producers decided, for some gods forsaken reason, to ELIMINATE THE MAIN ANTAGONIST. Read that again: the producers cut out the main bad guy! Instead, a side character who has a minimal role in the book is promotes to main baddy, and given abilities she doesn't actually possess. Why? Probably a toss-up between: a) no budget for proper effects for The Rider (which, considering the rest of the movie, that should have been the LEAST of their worries, b) girl villian brings in more viewers, or c) (and most likely) due to the raising of Will's age, a girl villian can use her 'wiles' as well as her powers to mess his day up. If you liked this book, DO NOT attempt to watch this movie. You won't be able to make it 10 minutes into the picture without either ragequiting or ranting the rest of the movie. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Released at the modern fantasy movies' prime during an age where there was a new Harry Potter movie to look forward to every year or two, The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising is a misfire of an adaptation with cheap production values, lame acting, crappy effects and just being rather boring. Oh, and it isn't faithful to the books even though I shouldn't have to read them to judge the movie, I guess. Though that does also mean that, unlike the Percy Jackson movies, this can't be enjoyed as a standalone movie either. If you want to see a movie that exists solely to cash in on the popularity of Harry Potter and Narnia (the latter was from the same production company as well!), look no further than The Seeker. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Harry Potter worked because it was a quintessentially British story told as exactly that. The author kept tight control of the style and content and the films are pretty true to the books. This doesn't work, because the original story is just as British and Hollywood has changed the central family to Americans and then messed with the story in a fashion guaranteed to remove the charm and nuance of the source material. Sticking an utterly miscast Ian "Lovejoy" McShane into the mix was never going to save it. It is a children's book (a series in fact by Susan Cooper) and as a child I loved it, but this is a travesty and our kids found it boring and incomprehensible. Did Hollywood learn nothing from the success of adapting Harry Potter? Kids can cope with intelligent films, with proper adaptations and they don't buy it when you cut corners and dumb it down. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member I liked it when I was growing up it was a fun movie and I really liked the idea that it plays with were Will is one of the youngest in his family my but is the one that ends up saving them. It has average special effects but the way they have different time eras for different stones is fun and interesting. So overall it is a good movie that is fun for the family and probably could have done with better CGI. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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