This is the main reason why it was hard to force myself to sit through the film - which, mind you, is only an hour and 46 minutes. The Last Witch Hunter is directed by Breck Eisner, written by Cory Goodman, Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama and produced by Mark Canton, Bernie Goldman and Vin Diesel. This edge is lost when he splits his attention between the case at hand and explaining what’s going on to his new righthand: how witches live in the shadows of modern society and keep their magic hidden how there’s a long line of hunter helpers called Dolans (like Elijah Wood’s character) how Kaulder was cursed with immortality by a witch queen, and now she’s back to unleash a plague of Black Death upon the world, and things like that. And that’s what we are going to talk about here. With traces of the Keanu Reeves film, Kaulder starts investigating the apparent death of his previous Dolan and stumbles across a much darker plot. The film begins in an interesting way with this slight Constantinian edge. I like my fantasy… but I am not the guy who liked The Last Witch Hunter, which highlights the many pitfalls that can come when trying to write fantasy. I’m the guy who recently participated in a drunken night of Magic: The Gathering while simultaneously belting along to the soundtrack to Sound of Music. I’m the guy who was still (sort of) into Seventh Son, even when Jeff Bridges became way too ridiculous (even for himself). I’m the guy who still loves watching Tom Cruise chase the unicorn in Legend.
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