This film is filled with action and is entertaining to watch but from a family point of view, it falls short. It is strong in the violence area, featuring a few scenes of witches being hanged and then dropped into the water to make sure they’re dead, along with some bloody sword battles and stabbings. The film is heavy on the supernatural side as well, with witches and demons being rather common. The movie does feature some nice cinematography and scenery of woods and mountains but in the family-friendly arena it doesn’t cut it.

Nicholas Cage plays Behmen, a 14h century Crusader who becomes disillusioned, along with his comrade Felson (Ron Perlman), when the church starts dictating they kill women and children too. Behmen states he will fight for God but not for the church.

He soon finds himself in a completely different battle arena when he is ordered to safely deliver a young woman to her trial to be tried for witchcraft. Behmen does not believe she is guilty until members of his traveling party start dying and unexplained occurrences continue to happen. What he learns about the girl is far more than he would have expected and he soon realizes he has a bigger battle on his hands then he ever would have dreamed. And the souls and lives of men are at stake. Unfortunately, due to the strong content in a few categories as listed below, we are unable to award our Dove Seal to this film.