‘Live forever’
The Last Witch Hunter is a 2015 American supernatural horror action film, directed by Breck Eisner from a screenplay by Cory Goodman, Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless.
The film, which reportedly cost over $90 million, is released on October 23, 2015.
Main cast:
Vin Diesel (Pitch Black; Riddick), Rose Leslie, Elijah Wood (Maniac; Cooties; Open Windows); Michael Caine (The Swarm; Dressed to Kill; The Hand; Stonehearst Manor) and Julie Engelbrecht.
Plot:
An immortal witch-hunter is tasked with the job of coming between the covens of New York City and their goal to destroy humanity by way of a horrific plague.
In order to accomplish this, he must partner up with a beautiful female witch, something he thought he would never do…
Reviews:
“Too drab to succeed even as defiantly unvirtuous trash, this era-straddling tale of an immortal medieval warrior protecting modern-day New York from a Black Death reboot stifles Diesel’s rough-hewn charisma via a sludgy, impermeable oil spill of CGI effects — in the service of largely unspectacular hocus pocus. Despite a pre-Halloween release date, the pic is more gung-ho than gooseflesh-inclined in genre… Guy Lodge, Variety
“ … The Last Witch Hunter boasts some terrific production design and digital effects, notably the Witch Queen’s lair and a creature called the Sentinel, both nightmarish pagan constructions of shape-shifting wood and bone. A couple of late plot twists also feel refreshingly left-field, even if they are shameless signposts for future sequels. Less impressively, Eisner’s movie is clogged with cardboard characters, flat dialogue and a sluggish middle act that gets lost in too much fabricated witchy folklore.” Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter
” … a relentlessly unengaging affair, its derivative and logic-deficient script matched by flat direction and fussy, unconvincing CGI. The performances are particularly rotten: we expect Vin to wobble about like a half-inflated penis balloon with a face scrawled on it, but Caine and Elijah Wood (playing his fellow priest) should know better; and the cut-glass-posh Leslie is simply unbearable…” Tom Huddleston, Time Out
Cast and characters:
- Vin Diesel as Kaulder
- Rose Leslie as Chloe
- Elijah Wood as the 37th Dolan
- Michael Caine as Father Dolan
- Julie Engelbrecht as Witch Queen
- Rena Owen as Glaeser
- Ólafur Darri Ólafsson as Belial
- Isaach De Bankolé as Schlesinger
- Lotte Verbeek as Helena
- Bex Taylor-Klaus as Brownyn
- Kurt Angle
Trailer 1:
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