Nicholas Cage's career has been patchy at best recently (Knowing, Next, Wickerman remake and Ghostrider all being disappointing) so I wasn't too bothered that I missed the cinema release of this one, quite happy to wait for the DVD.
It's actually OK, a fun medieval romp in which Cage and Pearlman, deserters from the crusade end up escorting a woman accused of witchcraft to a remote outpost of monks for trial. During the journey the cast, and indeed audience are constantly questioning whether or not the woman is in fact a witch. The problem is that she isn't and despite the nice set up at the beginning there is no witchcraft AT ALL in the rest of the movie which turns into something else entirely at it's end. I was rather bewildered especially with a title like "Season of the Witch" you expect there to be witches but instead this has more in common with something like Van Helsing.
Still genre and story confusion aside, it doesn't outstay its welcome. There's a fun cameo from Christopher Lee and Cage and Pearlman are both on form. I rather enjoyed it in a light no-brainer kind of way, though it's not going to be nominated for Oscars any time soon.
