Think Valley Girl, National Treasure and even The Sorcerer's Apprentice for that matter.
There's really nothing new here.
Cage and Ron Perlman (remember him for the Beauty and the Beast tv show ages ago?) play a pair of Templar Knights who kind of figure out that the wars they are fighting are not necessarily for God.. but for their commander who doesn't give a hoot what God says.
So they beat feet and high tail back to where ever it is they high tail it back to.
What they don't realize is that England has been hit with the Black Plague and the king of whatever village they were in tells them that he has this witch down in the dungeon and if they would just take her to the Abbey, the monks there have the VERY. LAST. SORCERER'S. BOOK that would break the plague spell and kill the witch.
So that's the story and you already know that since this is a Nicolas Cage movie, all kinds of mayhem will ensue and getting to the Abbey doesn't mean that anything is going to go down the way the King says it will and the movie will end the way almost all of Nicolas Cage's movies will end.
There really isn't any surprises here. At all.
Was it a good movie? It was ok .. it's been done better.. it's been done worse. I happen to love all things set in the medieval age so I may be slightly biased.. and, you know, it's not like Nic Cage was wrongly cast. But it has the feeling of ".. wow! I owe the IRS a loooooooooooot of money so let me spend a few weeks making some bank"
I wouldn't spend the money to go see this during prime hours.. in fact, it's kind of a perfect movie to use those almost expired gift tickets you got back on your birthday when there really isn't anything you really really want to see (!!) ... or wait for it on cable.
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