There are certainly enough dopey diversions for "The Last Witch Wrote," only with more shape-shifting ghouls and fire-strewnĭiesel trudges dourly through the proceedings, practicallyĮxpectorating dialogue that is, in fairness, pretty hard to play with. Plays out not unlike a super-sized episode of "Murder, She The latest of these,ĭolan 36th, takes the jovial form of Michael Caine, who's soonĭispatched to his coffin in mysterious circumstances. Succession of priestly advisers known as Dolans. Torment, accepting international witch-hunting assignments from a In present-day Manhattan, he lives in relatively comfortable Notīefore she afflicts him with the curse of immortality, however, thusĬonsigning him to a lonely life of winnowing out her mangy kind, hauntedīy the memory of his long-perished wife and daughter. Has our backs, wasting the Queen in a murky introductory battle. Maggoty digital mask) bent on total human eradication. Witch Queen (Julie Engelbrecht, or what's left of her beneath a Plague of 1346-53 was in fact foisted upon humanity by a vindictive To demand more detailed a milieu from a film that claims the Black Death Of Snowsylvania, though eight centuries has been long enough for him toĪdopt Diesel's signature gravelly drawl. Prologue, let's say it's the little-remembered European land Kaulder, actually comes from: Based on scant evidence in the pre-credit Screenplay doesn't make much of an effort to sell the idea.įor starters, it's uncertain where our noble witch-hunter, Slaying sorceresses for 700 years without a wrinkle to show for it, the
Hard to buy the star as a 14th-century soldier of the Catholic Church, There's little room here forĭiesel's lunkish, self-parodic streak of humor, and if it's
Really play to his strengths, despite having been developed andĬo-produced by the actor himself. Reposition him as a solo action star, this new vehicle doesn't Might expect to ride on Diesel fumes to an extent. "Fast and Furious" series, "The Last Witch Hunter" Unlikely to mint the franchise threatened by its eminently welcomeĬommercially, given the extraordinary cultural impact of the Gung-ho than gooseflesh-inclined in genre either way, it's Despite a pre-Halloween release date, the pic is more Warrior protecting modern-day New York from a Black Death reboot stiflesĭiesel's rough-hewn charisma via a sludgy, impermeable oil spill ofĬGI effects. Unvirtuous trash, this era-stradding tale of an immortal medieval Scent of "moldering crabapples"-a distinctive enoughįragrance in its own right, but hard to separate from the generallyįunky aroma of decomposition that permeates Breck Eisner's limp, "The Last Witch Hunter" is tracking a villain by his signature One of the trickier tasks Vin Diesel's eponymous hero faces in STARRING: Vin Diesel, Elijah Wood, Rose Leslie
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