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Black Death [DVD]

Black Death [DVD]Director: Christopher Smith
Actors: Sean Bean, Carice van Houten, Eddie Redmayne, David Warner, Kimberley Nixon
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Category: DVD

Buy New: £9.99  (EUR14.67)
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Seller: Amazon.co.uk
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars 4 reviews
Sales Rank: 401

Format: PAL
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 1

EAN: 5035822117235
ASIN: B003NE4S0S

Release Date: October 18, 2010  (In 38 Days)
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Customer Reviews:
2 out of 5 stars Cheap in every way   September 4, 2010
Mr. J. Miles (Birmingham, England)
3 out of 9 found this review helpful

Low low budget film, and boy does it show.

Generally I like Sean Bean and I expected so much better.

Grossly historically inaccurate details in a way I expect sad Hollywood films to do.

Woeful character development and poorly drawn caricatures in the most part anyway.

Ludicrous fantasy which has no part in a "historical" film, would have worked much better if it had been a purely fantasy environment, but attempts to set it in a place and time totally fail.

If you are prepared to leave your brain and adulthood far behind you might just get some entertainment from this, and that is all that saves it from a one star.


1 out of 5 stars Anti-Christian   August 31, 2010
Stephen Mcguigan (UK)
6 out of 47 found this review helpful

This film is communist tosh!

The film is an hour and a half rant against God and religion. The film starts off ok, but then soon shows its self to be nothing more than an anti-Christian propaganda piece. This film was clearly made by some leftist commie who hates religion. I was truly disgusted by this film's blatant hatred of anything Christian. Sean Bean used to be one of my favourite actors, but not anymore...

I would advise everyone to avoid this film like the plague



5 out of 5 stars Deliciously dark and surprisingly good   August 23, 2010
Twiss (England)
20 out of 22 found this review helpful

This is a low budget movie, yet it offers so much. To be honest I was expecting a poor film, regardless of Sean Bean's involvement. I'm glad I was wrong. What this movie does is show that you don't need to spend billions on effects etc . . . to put together a memorable story. The acting, from many actors I've never even heard of, was of a very high standard, and at times I could feel the tension and fear they experienced. This film wins the viewer over by being creepy and cruel, without shoving it in your face. The script holds its own and manages to convey a very powerfully eerie tome.

Where this movie excels, in my opinion, is in the tone it sets. There is something truly sinister and dark laced throughout the entirety of it all and, unlike many similar films, it actually works. No need for monsters or CGI phantoms. It just manages to draw out your fear through the masterful way it is put together.

My rating is not in comparison to masterpieces such as Lord of the Rings, but is based on what it actually is: a low budget fantasy-horror. A great one. If you like a good medieval-style horror, then I'm sure this is a film you'll enjoy. It doesn't boast loads of huge stars and massive effects, but it holds its own amongst many films I've seen recently that cost ten times the production costs.

Black Death is a film that will surprise and please . . . and chill to the core.



5 out of 5 stars Gritty and realistic   August 22, 2010
PJ Rankine (Wallington, Surrey United Kingdom)
22 out of 26 found this review helpful

Of course we have no real way of knowing what the fourteenth century was really like but in this film set in the time of the Black Death director Christopher Smith portrays a grim land stalked by plague and an evangelistic Christianity that is entirely believable. Eddie Redmayne plays Osmund; a novice monk, who has already been tempted by the sins of the flesh and is in love with a local girl called Avril whom he sends away into the forest to escape the plague. His own plague is the doubt that he is a good christian and just as he asks God for a sign so arrives the Bishop's envoy played by Sean Bean. Bean is perfectly cast as the soldier tasked by the bishop to investigate reports of a village in the marshes which has escaped the plague by turning away from God and worshipping a necromancer. Edmund is recruited as a guide and joins Bean's crew of mercenary soldiers on their mission. The English countyside is beautifully portrayed in muted colours throughout and the people are rough, unwashed and authentically portrayed. There is no stylised combat in this film, when violence breaks out it is realistic and brutal and very believable. Eventually the group reach the village which is a picture of order, cleanliness and health but hides a dark secret. Want to know more? Then watch it, this is a good medieval adventure and one of Sean Bean's best roles for a while.

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