It's strange because Husband's motivations seems more to reunite with his loved one, rather than help these band of men out. At first, we the audience question these group of men and if they could be trusted. Husband himself seems very timid, and very out of place with these men with swords. One of them even looks strangely like Aragorn from Lord of the Rings, and one scene they happen to come across a group of scavengers about to burn a helpless woman at the stake. Husband is like, "We have to help her!" And Aragorn stops this little party, cutting the woman's ropes off, and takes her by his wing. He walks with her away from everyone else. Is he rescuing her? No, he cuts her down with the blade. When Husband confronts Aragorn about this, Aragorn passes this off as if he did her a favor. This scene does have a purpose for later on in the story.
That's what this film is. It's a story and a good one at that. They want to find this village of what they call Necromancers, and somehow they can rise people from the dead. Once they get there, things get worse for these band of men and this is when I start to care about the characters. I won't get too much into detail about this, but it's pretty intense.
To be honest, I had seen nothing of this film going in and the beginning of the film made me think that it's going to feel like three hours going in. However, the story intrigued me and it had some brutal action scenes to go with it. I had a problem with the action scenes, though. What's the problem? You can barely see them! I always hated how some films have this shaky cam thing going on when there is a big battle going on. It's very disorienting and if that's the purpose, I really don't like it! I like to see what's going on without having to adjust my eyes.
I also want to mention the ending. I won't spoil it but let's just say that it's one of those endings that's a little bit of a downer, but thought provoking at the same time. In fact, my friend that I saw it with was asking about the last line of the movie. It made me think.
Black Death is very well done, and I highly recommend people to see it. It's like Lord of the Rings done on a much smaller scale.... with God.