The opening few seconds of the trailer have you hooked. Then Johnson goes in for the kill with a montage of faceless figures in dark hallways, animal carcasses in the grass, a police officer being attacked in his car by someone or something in the back seat and a man screaming on a busy New York street.
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Dev Patel is Gawain, not quite yet a sir, the nephew of King Arthur (Sean Harris) and Queen Guinevere (Kate Dickie) and the son of Morgan Le Fay (Sarita Choudhury), who practices witchcraft. The bulk of the movie centers on Gawain’s journey across the wet, verdant English countryside (the film was actually filmed around Cahir castle in Ireland).
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Of the entire cast (poor Rooney Mara!), only Toni Collette’s Mademoiselle Zeena catches our interest. Like Blondell in the original, she gives her character a modicum of humanity and pathos. This is yet another addition to her wonderous collection of memorable characters starting, of course, with Muriel at that wedding!
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However, the major reason to see this movie is the astonishing Kathryn Hunter who plays all three witches with different voices and various bodily contortions. She virtually explodes off the screen like one of her poisonous concoctions!
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