The Last Witch Hunter (2015)
The modern world holds many secrets, but by far the most astounding is that witches still live among us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world and putting an end to the human race once and for all. Armies of witch hunters have battled this unnatural enemy for centuries, including Kaulder, a valiant warrior who many years ago slayed the all-powerful Witch Queen, decimating her followers in the process. In the moments right before her death, the Queen cursed Kaulder with immortality, forever separating him from his beloved wife and daughter. Today, Kaulder is the last living hunter who has spent his immortal life tracking down rogue witches, all the while yearning for his long-lost family.
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Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
Breck Eisner's The Last Witch Hunter is the epitome of bland, a muddled mishmash of wholly unoriginal ideas pilfered from a range of other fantasy films, the whole thing thrown together with little concern for coherence and given a slick CGI makeover to try and convince punters that they're getting their money's worth. What viewers actually get is a showy mess that makes one wonder how such cookie-cutter drivel ever gets the green-light in the first place.Star Vin Diesel is forgettable as Kaulder, a witch-hunter who was cursed centuries ago with immortality by a witch queen (Julie Engelbrecht), and who has spent his everlasting life hunting down those who practise dark magic. Michael Caine plays Kaulder's church sanctioned assistant Dolan 36th who is killed by an evil sorceror, and Elijah Wood is his replacement, Dolan 37th, who joins Kaulder in the search for those who seek to resurrect the witch queen. Also lending a hand is good witch Chloe (Rose Leslie).After lots of confusing, special effects driven action and dreary supernatural drama, the film ends in a manner that suggests it was intended to be the beginning of a franchise. Given how poorly the movie was received, I think that there is a witch's chance in Salem of that happening.
The movie looked really interesting during the first 10 minutes, but after that, everything just became bland and boring. Vin Diesel couldn't save this movie even if he tried. We got some big actors, but they couldn't have done anything to make this film interesting either. The battle scenes were boring. The storyline was generic. The movie is just terrible. Kaulder is a witch-hunter cursed with immortality by the Witch Queen. They couldn't even come up with a more cool name for the queen? When Kaulder and the Witch Queen met again, she took back her curse of immortality. In the end, when Kaulder killed the Witch Queen again, a witch friend of his stopped him from destroying the heart because he would die. WHY WOULD HE DIE? The Witch Queen didn't cast the curse of immortality on him for the second time. Destroying the heart wouldn't have killed him at all, so what the heck? It's either I missed something or the writers were hoping to make a sequel.
The last witch hunter is all that stands between humanity and the combined forces of the most horrifying witches in history. So i finally watched The Last Witch Hunter and this movie surprised the hell out of me it was serious, dark and funny when it was needed to and with some great performances by Vin Diesel, Elijah Wood, Rose Leslie and Michael Caine who is great as always also Julie Engelbrecht plays The Witch Queen and she is creepy as hell and the make up on her is outstanding, the special effects were very convincing and overall pretty good for the most part as for the story and the dialogue i found it really great. This is not your typical witch hunter and not your typical Fantasy Adventure it's darker in tone and it's a mix of Blade meets End of Days meets John Constantine. There was supposed to be a sequel coming out and i don't know if they will go on with it but there's still some story here and there to tell and Diesel fits the part very well so my opinion is for him to stop the Fast and the Furious Franchise and also for the love of god no more XXX films their getting old and pretty cheesy. Overall The Last Witch Hunter (2015) is not something that you haven't seen before but fans of this kind of genre including myself will not be disappointed (A+)
Look. I see all these reviews talking about the semi-cheesy effects and the acting.... but seriously?? Vin Diesel is the lead. You knew what you were getting into when you saw this. He always plays the same Bad-A unemotional sort of cheesy character. It's part of his charm. Also I feel the graphics were beautiful without being too light hearted for a movie about witches. The whole plot runs like a D&D campaign, it is slightly predictable-- but anyone who has seen Ridick or any other Vin Diesel based movie should expect that. It's a feel good-fun movie with just a touch of darkness. It's really sad that it didn't do well enough in the box office for them to make a second one, I feel it really had potential.