What ever happened to the dark and brooding evil fighters who said very little? The other major problem is that the little surprise that could have been delivered through the overly complicated dialogue gets lost in the mumbled acting of Vin Diesel. When you can see those moments coming from a mile away, they tend to loose all their strength. Screenwriters Cory Goodman, Matt Sazma and Burk Sharpless have cobbled together ideas from “Game of Thrones,” “The Da Vinci Code,” “Highlander,” “Scooby-Doo” and “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters” to create a plot that tries to twist and turn its way to shocking moments. Kaulder gets aid from a dream walker witch (Rose Leslie) and his new biographer (Elijah Wood).
It was Kaulder who stopped the Witch Queen and became immortal centuries ago. She’s the creature responsible for the Black Death that killed millions in the 1300s.
Kaulder begins his quest to stop a wicked witch who wants to revive the Witch Queen. There’s no way of knowing with Diesel’s limited acting skills. That changes when his Dolan (Michael Caine), the member of a secret order who is writing Kaulder’s long-running biography, is attacked.
Because of a truce forged years ago with the witches, it doesn’t seem like he’s had a lot to do except seduce flight attendants over the past few centuries. The lame plot has acting’s answer to drywall, Vin Diesel, playing the immortal witch hunter Kaulder. Here’s a first: “The Last Witch Hunter” manages to be both overly complicated and painfully predictable at the same time.
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