The Last Witch Hunter Reviews

How do you take top-tier action-movie actors like Vin Diesel, mix them with other reliable box-office favorite actors (Elijah Wood and Rose Leslie, fresh off her star turn in Game Of Thrones) and a smattering of box-office greats like Michael Caine and NOT have a winner on your hands?  This had the look and feel of a guaranteed profitable franchise! What went wrong? Too much CGI, Vin Diesel's one-note performance, sub-plots going nowhere,...and the final chapter/plot wrap-up pretty much killed it for me.  Makes you wonder if the production team realized this wasn't the hit they wanted and re-wrote the end to cut their losses?

To be honest, I wasn't expecting much from this flick but since there was a decent cast involved, I thought I might as well check it out. First of all, it is not very often that you get to see Vin Diesel in something really new since he nowadays he only shows up in some sequels. Anyway, even though the guy was supposed to become the biggest action star in the world at the beginning of his career, he actually never fulfilled these expectations and he has always been a rather limited and boring actor. This movie was a perfect example. Indeed, Diesel was supposed to play a character who was cursed, an immortal who had lived already more than 800 years and, yet, he played this character without showing any mark of inner struggle whatsoever as if Dominic Toretto showed up on the wrong movie set. Still, I have to admit that the concept for this movie had some potential, the mythology displayed was not bad and, even though it was never really mind blowing, I was actually fairly entertained. Unfortunately, the last act turned to be so tedious and generic, it pretty much ruined the whole thing for me. To conclude, even though I have seen worse, I don't think it is really worth a look, except maybe if you are a die-hard fan of the genre. 

Thoughts Before I Watched This:
1. I find some Box Office Flops to be mostly just mindless fun.
2. I mean Vin Diesel though...Badass!
3. My love Rose Leslie oh how I enjoy seeing you grace my screen.
4. Her presence makes me even more excited to watch this.
5. Elijah Wood, Michael Caine, and Joseph Gilgun enough said!
6. Sure Sahara wasn't good, but Breck Eisner's The Crazies remake was great.
7. It's concerning that there are 3 writers though.
8. Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless wrote Dracula Untold though which I highly enjoyed.
9. Cory Goodman wrote Priest which was just okay and the upcoming Underworld sequel.
10. Bring on the witches!!

Thoughts While Watching This:
1. I have this feeling the beginning is going to have some kind of writing or narration since these types of movies usually do.
2. Never mind I was wrong or it could be after the prologue.
3. Oh I think these witches are much more interesting than the Hansel & Gretel Witch hunters kind.
4. The only things that could be interesting about living forever is the chance to experience the changes of the world and know which stories were false and which were actual points in history.
5. Ah there is the narration I knew it would come.
6. If only all meetings could be like that one surely was.
7. Trouble is a brewing.
8. The CGI could be better some of it is great while other times it looks a bit cartoonish.
9. See now that makes me not want to trust food establishments lol.
10. That seemed a lot like something the witch from the original Hansel & Gretel would have.
11. Awesome Joseph Gilgun has arrived!
12. Half an hour in and still no Rose Leslie this saddens me.
13. Okay now I'm happy It's about time.
14. Fear me witches!
15. Wait so by dying he became immortal that's interesting!
16. Okay that hand thing was pretty badass.
17. So is the main villain of a witch movie a man? You don't see that too often.
18. Models are actually witches disguising themselves as young beauties makes sense lol.
19. Yeah they definitely need to keep that magic yikes.
20. Ah didn't see that twist coming.
21. How intriguing!
22. Stuff is about to get intense for sure.
23. Well isn't that convenient.
24. Uh yeah that's what he just said...
25. Nails VS Sword yeah okay.
26. Flame on!
27. Oh shit didn't see that coming!
28. Nice the villain actually tries to kill the hero instead of giving a speech of their plan.
29. Ah noooo!
30. Bet he felt real stupid briefly.
31. Of course.
32. Interesting that they decided to do that.
33. I see a red door and I want to paint it black...wait that's definitely not the original.

Thoughts After I Watched This:
1. If I were immortal I wouldn't mind Rose Leslie as my +1.
2. The twists were good and somewhat different.
3. Joseph Gilgun loves being oddball characters.
4. It didn't have quite as much action as I would have liked.
5. The CGI for some things was a bit odd.
6. Some of the writing could have used some editing.
7. It wasn't bad though just okay.