Reposition him as a solo action star, this new vehicle doesn't Might expect to ride on Diesel fumes to an extent. "Fast and Furious" series, "The Last Witch Hunter"
Unlikely to mint the franchise threatened by its eminently welcomeĬommercially, given the extraordinary cultural impact of the Gung-ho than gooseflesh-inclined in genre either way, it's Despite a pre-Halloween release date, the pic is more Warrior protecting modern-day New York from a Black Death reboot stiflesĭiesel's rough-hewn charisma via a sludgy, impermeable oil spill ofĬGI effects. Unvirtuous trash, this era-stradding tale of an immortal medieval
Scent of "moldering crabapples"-a distinctive enoughįragrance in its own right, but hard to separate from the generallyįunky aroma of decomposition that permeates Breck Eisner's limp, "The Last Witch Hunter" is tracking a villain by his signature One of the trickier tasks Vin Diesel's eponymous hero faces in STARRING: Vin Diesel, Elijah Wood, Rose Leslie MLA style: "The Last Witch Hunter." The Free Library.Fast and furious on the surface, shallow and conventional beneath, Diesel’s bid to carve himself another billion-dollar franchise is off to a good start with this mainstream crowd-pleaser. Steve Jablonsky‘s ever-present, over-insistent orchestral score also grates on the nerves before long. 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. A couple of late plot twists also feel refreshingly left-field, even if they are shameless signposts for future sequels.
In its favor, 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. Still, having such a wooden lead playing such a one-dimensional hero definitely makes it less appealing for casual movie goers. In fairness, these limitations are unlikely to deter the movie’s action-fan target demographic. In The Last Witch Hunter, he acts opposite an immobile corpse and a wooden tree monster, yet still somehow manages to be stiffer than both. But more recently he seems to have settled comfortably into Steven Segal mode, a walking bag of boiled ham whose expressive range barely extends beyond sleepy-eyed, guttural grunts. All smirk and bicep, he was once earmarked as the natural successor to Bruce Willis.
The one truly impressive thing about Diesel’s acting skills is how he has achieved so much with so little.
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