Romero’s The Crazies back in 2010, but this film shows none of the lunatic flair for the ghastly that the previous film so easily served up. Filled with cardboard characterizations from otherwise excellent actors – Michael Caine’s “36th Dolan” is baldly Batman’s Alfred in a clerical collar, and Wood’s "37th Dolan" is just plain badly written – The Last Witch Hunter should take its title literally, as a sacrosanct promise to the genre film faithful.ĭirector Eisner helmed the excellent remake of George R.
Here as Kaulder, the eponymous hunter of witches (currently some 700-plus years old since slaying the Queen of the Witches during the Black Plague), Diesel gets to chomp down on the too-often CGI scenery and hassle otherwise ordinary, Williamsburg witches for the Catholic Legion of Decency, or, as it’s called in the film, the Axe and Cross. Diesel’s best roles to date have arguably been as the voice of The Iron Giant and his work as Dominic Toretto in the increasingly kickass, gearhead Fast and Furious superseries. For a film that tosses around words like “magic” and “immortal” roughly every four minutes or so, The Last Witch Hunter is disappointingly mired in anything-but-immortal dialogue and a definite surfeit of Vin Dieselness.
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