![]() But for those who buy into the fantasy-mystery genre, it’s heavy stuff. Simply describing all of this feels like the aftereffects of having ingested acid-laced Kool-Aid. Richie is accompanied on this quest by the comely Kahlan Amnell (Bridget Regan), whose very stare can transform men into puddles of pudding, and Zedd (Bruce Spence) the all-wise and powerful wizard who can’t believe he’s got to save the world from enslavement again. It turns out he has been infused with unwitting magical powers that he’s duty-bound to use in halting the evil scheming of your garden variety sinister tyrant (Craig Parker). “Seeker” tells the ambiguous tale of a woodsman named Richard Cypher (Aussie actor Craig Horner), whose shirtless attributes are put out on beefcake display in the very first scene. The opening two-hour stanza, adapted from Goodkind’s “Wizard’s First Rule,” is rife with spectacular vistas and dazzling visuals from effects supervisors Dean Clarke and Charlie McClellan and overseen by the esteemed partners Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert and their fellow exec producers. ![]() ![]() Mounted by the creators of “Xena” and “Hercules” and based on the best-selling novels of Terry Goodkind, “Seeker” is both endearingly retro and agonizingly humorless, a kind of poor man’s “Lord of the Rings” that, like “Rings,” was shot in the breathtaking wilds of New Zealand. ![]()
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