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Name: The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
Released: 2007-10-5
Cast: Alexander Ludwig, Christopher Eccleston, Frances Conroy, Ian McShane

The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising

PG
1h 39m
2007

14%

age 8+

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When an otherwise normal young man learns that he’s the last of a group of powerful warriors, he embarks on a dangerous quest through time to battle “The Dark”, an evil threat to mankind that has already claimed his twin brother. Based on the acclaimed novel by Susan Cooper.

Director:

David L. Cunningham

Producer:

Marc Platt

Writer:

John Hodge

Cast:

Alexander Ludwig, Christopher Eccleston, Frances Conroy, Ian McShane

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

14%

Critics Consensus: The magic of the book is lost in translation with The Seeker, due to its clumsy plot and lack of heart.

Reviews

Gone With The Twins

Mike Massie

One in a long line of films that made one irredeemable, incalculable mistake: it didn't beat Harry Potter to the theater.

The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising isn't an out and out bad film, there have certainly been worse films and recently, but it's not particularly good either, suffering from ill-conceived and executed story decisions that rob it of tension or interest.

a lot of shouting offered up as an ineffectual camouflage to the picture's complete lack of ambition.

Sloppy, lifeless storytelling so limp it guarantees no sequels will be made.

June 21, 2017

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St. Paul Pioneer Press

Chris Hewitt

The Seeker is great-looking and well-acted, but unlike the Potter books and films, there's no sense that it's about anything more than the throwing-balls-of-smoke and mind-melding that we see onscreen.

June 21, 2017

Common Sense Media

age 8+

Common Sense Says

Disappointing adaptation of a great kids' book.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that one scene in this fantasy movie stands out as too much for younger kids: Hundreds and hundreds of snakes attack people in a church, pursuing the teen hero to a crypt littered with skeletons (one of which briefly comes to life). Black birds gather in droves and attack, and Will is constantly pursued by a dark force, most often in the form of a masked man on horseback. The forces also threaten Will's whole family; at one point, giant icicles rain down on them. Will witnesses some violent events in his time travels, including the pillaging of a medieval village and the start of a cockfight in a tavern. In anger and frustration, he sets off a fiery explosion. Adults drink a little ale and wine.