Lee Curtis’s review published on Letterboxd:
For several years Nicolas Cage has received an awful lot of criticism for terrible films he appears in, yet my defence of this remarkable talent has lasted as long. I constantly find myself ignoring the tame performances in awful films and cling to the memory of Leaving Las Vegas, Adaptation and Matchstick Men, but it’s on occasions like this when even die-hard Cage fans begin to doubt his ability.
However, Cage’s efforts here are hard to fault as he desperately ekes out everything he possibly can from such a shoddily written role. In his performance as the Teutonic Knight who questions the morals of the church he slavishly fought for he is genuine, watchable and even his hair – that has so frequently betrayed him in the past – impresses. Aside from the painful accent, the only realistic complaint against Cage here is his poor choice in role.
Season of the Witch is another Cage film that has been panned by many solely on the basis of Cage’s performance. Don’t get me wrong, he’s by no means good here, but the entire, otherwise impressive cast – Ron Perlman, Robert Sheehan and Stephen Graham – are all let down by a woeful script. The dialogue is catastrophic, the characters paper thin and save for a genuinely well constructed opening sequence there is nothing memorable about this entire project.
Season of the Witch is a colossal waste of time that serves to prove only one thing; that I will watch absolutely anything with Nic Cage in it.