Warlock - 1989

I had some time on my hands and heard about this movie. Being a fan of Julian Sands, I was interested in checking out this film.

A warlock is sent to the future where he's tasked with finding the three parts of the devil's grimoire. He wants to uncreate creation, but he'll need to go through Redferne first. Redferne followed him to the future (somehow) and employs a young woman to help stop the warlock.

Ok, so first I'm going to address the elephant in the room. The special effects in this movie are AWFUL. They're straight up some of the worst I think I've seen in a LONG time. If I move past that, I tend to lean toward Sands in any of his roles. I think he did a good job here, but it was hard to root for him at times. I can kind of sympathize with him using kids to be able to "fly," but it still looked really bad.

The story was interesting, and I liked it overall. I feel like the warlock acting was better than Redferne. That guy seemed to lean into a caricature or something. I also found it interesting these guys time travel 300 years and seemed to take it extremely well.

There are more movies, even though this one didn't do that well. Julian Sands appears again in the second one, so I might watch it, but I'm trying to narrow down how I feel about this one. I also want to point out how this movie didn't rely on jump scares. I expected one a couple times, but I was never scared. And I am very jumpy. I was entertained the whole time, and I'm going to give it a Good Movie! review. I wouldn't recommend it to everyone. I understand the criticisms, and they are valid, but I had a good time with it. Fly on, Julian Sands, fly on!