In 1349 Walter (Jon Finch) is fighting those pesky French. His manor is in the hands of his wife Lady Miltilda (Lena Headey). Walter gets captured and is ransomed. Nicholaus (Jason Flemyng) his nephew has also taken a hostage, the son of the Count, Jacques de Saint Amant (David La Haye) oddly the only man with any class in this British film.
There is an air of mystery around this man who appears to be something other than we think. He has a scar of a cross on his chest. There are also uneven flash back scenes that are basically meaningless until an hour and twenty-two minutes into the film when we find out about Walter's first wife (Elizabeth Marmur) a story every villager knows about...except his current wife Matilda,
The story is slow to develop and once it was developed it moves slow to the climax, at which point I realized the film wasn't worth watching. Poorly conceived and executed.
"Black Plague" was a 2002 film called "Anazapata" a word that is explained at an hour or so into the film and then becomes meaningless. "Black Death" was a far better film. Most films about the Black Plague are better (even that zombie one). In fact most films that have the word "Black" or "Plague" in their title are better.
Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, rape, male nudity, graphic sexual drawings...and all done rather poorly.
There is an air of mystery around this man who appears to be something other than we think. He has a scar of a cross on his chest. There are also uneven flash back scenes that are basically meaningless until an hour and twenty-two minutes into the film when we find out about Walter's first wife (Elizabeth Marmur) a story every villager knows about...except his current wife Matilda,
The story is slow to develop and once it was developed it moves slow to the climax, at which point I realized the film wasn't worth watching. Poorly conceived and executed.
"Black Plague" was a 2002 film called "Anazapata" a word that is explained at an hour or so into the film and then becomes meaningless. "Black Death" was a far better film. Most films about the Black Plague are better (even that zombie one). In fact most films that have the word "Black" or "Plague" in their title are better.
Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, rape, male nudity, graphic sexual drawings...and all done rather poorly.