The Last Witch Hunter (2015)

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	Year of first release: 2015
	Director: Breck Eisner (The Crazies, Sahara)
	Actors:  Vin Diesel (XxX, Pitch Black), Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones TV-series), Elijah Wood (Maniac, Sin City), Michael Caine (Zulu, the Dark Knight trilogy, Harry Brown, The Fouth Protocol)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Fantasy, Action
	Conditions of visioning: 21.07.2016, inflight entertainment 8" screen
Synopsis: In ancient times, Kaulder (Diesel) defeats the Witch Queen who curses him with immortality. Centuries later he has become a weapon of the Church to maintain the peace between witches and humans, at a time of transition between his 36th and 37th guardians (Caine and Wood).
Review: In the category of the recent Action Fantasy movies, The Last Witch Hunter holds up pretty well. I was curious to see if Vin Diesel was still deserving his title of Action Hero, as the last time I saw him was in the average Riddick and I don't count the Fast & Furious franchise nor The Guardians of the Galaxy in which he only has a small voice part (Groot). He plays this time more a real hero than an anti-hero, but still gives to the character the usual indifference he does so well. The quartet Diesel / Caine / Wood / Leslie (Ygritte in the Game of Thrones TV-series) works pretty well for me. The story contains the right amount of twists and regularly spaced action scenes, put into images using the latest in digital special effects. It is hard to describe why The Last Witch Hunter is better than a Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters for example, but it is. Maybe because the wardrobe of the characters is not designed to look oh-so-cool, neither are their dialogs. The digital special effects are numerous, I couldn't appreciate them fully because of poor visioning conditions but I liked how they contributed to the dark atmosphere of the movie. Not a masterpiece but a serious piece if Action Fantasy seriously directed.
Rating: 6 /10