Boring us with random details and dry stories won’t cut it. More filmmakers need to learn that we’ll go along with any fantasy premise, no matter how ludicrous, as long as you show us a good time. But his reason for believing that is nothing more than a vague clue left by the dying Dolan - hardly enough to hang the whole plot on it.Īnd so we are disappointed, not because “The Last Witch Hunter” is bad (we sort of expected that), but because it’s not even the enjoyable kind of bad. From the director of The Crazies (remake), co-starring Elijah Wood, Michael Caine and Game of Thrones’ Rose Leslie. It’s boring, really.” YEAH, NO KIDDING.) For most of the film, he’s trying to regain his memory of the day the Witch Queen cursed him, as he believes he will find clues there regarding the death of Dolan 36. Vin Diesel is a witch-killer in this supernatural adventure set in modern day New York. Kaulder cannot be killed, and doesn’t seem to be tormented by that fact. But it skips over the more immediate concern: making THIS story and THESE characters compelling. The screenplay, by the writers of “Dracula Untold” and “Priest,” is loaded with references to a complex mythology that could make this a fascinating world, if it were developed and those references were explained. The modern world holds many secrets, but the most. The film stars Vin Diesel Vin Diesel, Rose Leslie, Elijah Wood, Michael Caine, Rena Owen, and Julie Engelbrecht, and is scheduled for theatrical release in North America on October 23, 2015.
Harper, and Melisa Wallack, and directed by Breck Eisner. A collaborator witch named Chloe (Rose Leslie), who is a Dreamwalker (it doesn’t matter), is also lending a hand. The Last Witch Hunter (2015) is a supernatural action film written by Cory Goodman, D.W. Cast & Crew Vin Diesel Kaulder Elijah Wood Dolan 37th Rose Leslie Chloe Julie Engelbrecht Witch Queen Michael Caine Dolan 36th lafur Darri lafsson Belial Show all Cast & Crew News & Interviews. His new one, Dolan 37 (Elijah Wood), is going to help him solve the murder of Dolan 36 (Michael Caine, who was around just long enough to be an exposition-providing narrator). He’s assisted in this by a priest called a Dolan. (Witch, curse thyself!) Today, he travels the world (but mostly New York City), arresting witches who disobey the rule not to use magic against humans. Which is always a great motive for making a movie.ĭiesel plays a lumpen marble-mouth named Kaulder, on whom the Witch Queen placed a curse back in the 13th century that he would never die. Oh, and the film desperately, DESPERATELY wants to be the beginning of a franchise, too. Instead, director Breck Eisner ( “The Crazies,” “Sahara”) opts for chaotic action and half-baked digital effects, all in the service of a thin story with no interesting characters. “The Last Witch Hunter,” starring inarticulate golem Vin Diesel as an immortal Catholic tasked with keeping the peace between witches and regular folk, fails to be either. I hold movies to the same standard as people: if you can’t be good, you should at least be fun.