Review of Pilgrimage (2017) by Andrew B — 23 Sep 2018

A group of monks in medieval Ireland guard a precious religious relic at their rural monastery. Frère Geraldus (Stanley Weber), a French Cistercian monk, arrives with a charter from Pope Innocent III, commanding the monks to undertake a pilgrimage to transport their monastery's holiest relic to Rome under Geraldus. The monks reluctantly agree, as legend tells that the relic's holy power will destroy any not pure-hearted enough to possess it. A handful of monks set out, including multilingual Brother Ciarán (John Lynch) and novice Brother Diarmuid (Tom Holland), accompanied by a mute laborer (Jon Bernthal). As the group is caught in a rainstorm, the golden reliquary is struck by lightning but shows no damage, further reinforcing the notion of its mystical power. Their faith that binds them together may ultimately lead to their destruction...

"Pilgrimage" has an intriguing story in the wake of the crusades and there´s some production value. The acting and action scenes wobbles sometimes, but we get some nice landscape scenery due to the setting on Ireland. Tom Holland is doing a role far far away from Peter Parker/Spiderman, but he is not too bad as Brother Diarmuid and Jon Bernthal as The Mute is quite solid. "Pilgrimage" is ok, but nothing to write home about.