The modern world holds many secrets, but by far the most astounding is that witches still live among us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world and putting an end to the human race once and for all. Armies of witch hunters have battled this unnatural enemy for centuries, including Kaulder, a valiant warrior who many years ago slayed the all-powerful Witch Queen, decimating her followers in the process. In the moments right before her death, the Queen cursed Kaulder with immortality, forever separating him from his beloved wife and daughter. Today, Kaulder is the last living hunter who has spent his immortal life tracking down rogue witches, all the while yearning for his long-lost family.
Critics largely dismissed The Last Witch Hunter as a dull, muddled action-fantasy that fails to harness what makes Vin Diesel watchable. The rare dissent came from those who found its sheer absurdity a guilty pleasure, suggesting the film works better as camp than as the pulpy genre ride it clearly intends to be.
“It is terrible. It is fabulously entertaining.”
Alison Willmore·BuzzFeed News
“atypically dopey but consummately well-assembled”
Simon Abrams·RogerEbert.com
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The modern world holds many secrets, but by far the most astounding is that witches still live among us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world and putting an end to the human race once and for all. Armies of witch hunters have battled this unnatural enemy for centuries, including Kaulder, a valiant warrior who many years ago slayed the all-powerful Witch Queen, decimating her followers in the process. In the moments right before her death, the Queen cursed Kaulder with immortality, forever separating him from his beloved wife and daughter. Today, Kaulder is the last living hunter who has spent his immortal life tracking down rogue witches, all the while yearning for his long-lost family.
Critics largely dismissed The Last Witch Hunter as a dull, muddled action-fantasy that fails to harness what makes Vin Diesel watchable. The rare dissent came from those who found its sheer absurdity a guilty pleasure, suggesting the film works better as camp than as the pulpy genre ride it clearly intends to be.
“It is terrible. It is fabulously entertaining.”
Alison Willmore·BuzzFeed News
“atypically dopey but consummately well-assembled”
Simon Abrams·RogerEbert.com
Action, Adventure, Fantasy