2010 · fantasy · adventure · action
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Directed by Jon Turteltaub1h 49m2010
Balthazar Blake is a master sorcerer in modern-day Manhattan trying to defend the city from his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath. Balthazar can't do it alone, so he recruits Dave Stutler, a seemingly average guy who demonstrates hidden potential, as his reluctant protégé. The sorcerer gives his unwilling accomplice a crash course in the art and science of magic, and together, these unlikely partners work to stop the forces of darkness.
Our read: The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive fantasy · adventure · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme fantasy / adventure, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
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- inventive
- redemptive
- epic-stakes
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