![]() ![]() The plot is tired, predictable and full of terrible dialogue - my favourite example being “Hey kid, did your mother never tell you to not eat sweets off trees?” - but it’s in these familiar cliches that some enjoyment can be found, if only for the quite endearing realisation that Diesel is literally living out his dream, being a self-confessed fantasy nerd. ![]() ![]() Let’s get the negatives out of the way first. "in these familiar cliches, some enjoyment can be found, if only for the endearing realisation that Diesel is living his dream" The main storyline centres around the discovery of a plot to resurrect the evil Witch Queen, who has a fierce desire to bring back the plague, therefore causing the world to spiral into chaos and interminable hellishness and so on and so on. He stars as Kaulder, the witch hunter of the title, who has essentially been cursed to an eternal life of breathing on windows (no joke) and yes, killing witches, while getting some support from the wise ‘Dolans’ (Michael Caine, Elijah Wood) along the way. I n what has got to be one of the most ambitious (and frankly even a little ridiculous) efforts against type-casting, Vin Diesel switches from Fast to fantasy in this decidedly mediocre attempt to create a new franchise. ![]()
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