There are scenes where Kaulder can threaten a witch by his very presence, essentially playing good cop while his 800-year old reputation plays bad cop. His anger only knows one level, and that’s shouting. Michael Caine is completely wasted in his role as a priest who advises Kaulder.ĭiesel himself is uneven at best. There’s a single, needless line of voice-over narration when the film’s already 20 minutes old. The costuming contains personal detail, but is often ill-advised in concept. The set design is occasionally visionary, occasionally ordinary. The film’s other elements are here and there. Director Breck Eisner also manages to get the practical special effects and the CGI visual effects together on the same page. Well, he looks ridiculous, but in just the right way. The Witch Queen is a fantastic practical creature design and, somehow, Vin Diesel doesn’t look ridiculous as a Viking. The exceptional makeup design by Justin Raleigh, Danielle Noe, and their crew is also worth mentioning. It also does a stellar job of making this all accessible without slowing down the pace of a fight. It’s one of the only films I’ve seen treat magic this ambitiously. If witches and wizards are so powerful, they should be calling tree limbs out of the ground, teleporting, partitioning rooms into different parts of time, turning into swarms of flies at the drop of a hat, and trying to trap each other within dreams and memories mid-battle. Wizards just shot sparks at each other as if they’d whipped revolvers out at a saloon. Most of the “Harry Potter” series is better overall, but too often that franchise devolved magic battles into faux gun fights. The film takes time to explain things, but the real standout here is the way magical battles incorporate outlandish spells. The world-building at play here is very good. He helps keep the balance between magic users and humans. Fast-forward 800 years to present day, and he’s working as the enforcer to a secret alliance between the Catholic Church and the Witch Council. Kaulder achieves his goal but is cursed with immortality in doing so. From the beginning, “Witch Hunter” lets you know it’s not quite playing by the same rules as other action movies. This fortress is a vast tree that stretches across the entire horizon, and the warriors are faced with strange magics and shapeshifting beasts once inside.
We find Kaulder (Diesel) and his band of medieval warriors launching a last-ditch assault on the fortress of the evil Witch Queen. But enough about Apple users and “Steve Jobs.” Instead, let’s talk about a movie based on Vin Diesel’s Dungeons & Dragons character: “The Last Witch Hunter.” They worship an unnatural god who thinks humans are here only to serve. This weekend saw the wide release of a movie about a strange cult threatening the world.
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