Caught this On Demand last night.
Cool little movie. I'm with Disciple_72, in that I would have loved a little more focus on the plague and its effects in that first act. Everything feels really small and confined and I never really got the sense that this epidemic was happening on a large scale. The 'men on a mission' formula is a bit stale, but it works fine here, and theres a bit of personality injected into each of the main players. But its the second act where things really get interesting, and the smallness and the limited scope that sort of took me out of the movie in the first act start working for the film instead of against it. I dug the sense of isolation, the Pagan vs Christian angle, the 'is she magic or isn't she' angle, and I especially enjoyed where they went with Redmayne's character at the end. Pretty neat stuff that isn't your typical genre fare. And I don't think I'll ever get tired Bean's sword and shield shtick. The guy just belongs in a suit of armor.
Also, I'm not at all familiar with Christopher Smith's filmography (something I plan to remedy), but it seems to consist of splattery horror movies, and there wasn't a whole lot of splatter here, which seems odd for such a grimy horror-infused sword and shields flick. All the gore seemed to happen just out of frame and I'm wondering if this was a stylistic choice from Smith, or if I happened to catch a heavily edited version.
