Even though peeps hate Vin Diesel (and it’s def unfortunate that most associate him with Fast and the Furious instead of Chronicles), it had a lot of cool visuals, world-building, and characters (Rose Leslie ftw). It flopped, sure, but it probably didn’t deserve to flop this much (cost 70 million, has made only 25 so far).
Seriously? Bad, wardrobe! Bad! pīecause of these flaws, it just makes me want to watch Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) instead, which I really liked and I don’t care if it “flopped” almost as terribly as Last Witch Hunter - critics don’t know how to love clever horror/sci-fi unless it comes with pretentious attachments, whereas I think that characters interacting well can save almost any absurdity of script, because it’s always possible to laugh while living in apocalyptic ruins :p I just wish they’d done a few things differently: an R-rating, either replace Leslie/Diesel’s romance with a Platonic admiration or else do more background work on why Leslie’s character might be attracted to a Diesel-type, a more dramatic/foreboding ending, and someone should have been fired for putting Harry Potter in a white turtle-neck sweater.
So, I understand why this movie flopped (paid critics typically hate Sci-Fi/fantasy/adventure combos, and they definitely hate Vin Diesel), but I kind of liked it. though it was also similar to something else that I can’t quite place.Īnyhow, personally I think they should have gone with a more foreboding ending (the evil awaiting), but with a PG-13 rating, it’s not unexpected for them to go light with some actioney buddy cop routine.
especially the ending, which seemed too upbeat and almost a comical - even if unintentional - repeat of MiB’s car pan-away (ignoring the “dice with the universe” thing): Their relationship being the major issue for me, the lesser issues came from random corny moments. The silver lining on this was that they never kissed or anything, and the writers/producers intend to do a sequel (or at least hoped to if this movie had performed well, which it didn’t), which means that major relationship developments were saved for future story work (which probably won’t happen). Yes he had lost his family, but his flaws were taken mostly for granted (how had Leslie really perceived them? How had Diesel processed them in relation to his immortality?), so Leslie’s presence didn’t seem to alter him in any significant way. I don’t think the director spent enough time working with Vin Diesel - to show what might be desirable. On her side, I think it actually worked a little, just because she was directly exposed to his subconscious via some well-directed flashbacks (so there was room to guess that she might see something desirable). Vin Diesel’s character was too much the “eternal player” type, and this wasn’t really seen to change much with his attraction to Leslie’s character (had he changed enough to see her?). so I think it’s more just that the director didn’t really put the right effort into their relationship. I was trying to decide if this was just because I personally still think that it’s “Ygritte and Jon Snow 4evar,” but I don’t think I’m quite that petty p. like they didn’t quite have chemistry for it to work. Rose Leslie’s character was very kewl, but my main complaint (and why this movie wasn’t -super- kewl) was that her romance with Vin Diesel seemed a little awkward. It ended up being like a combination of Constantine (2005)(immortalized hunter of evil), Black Death(2010)/ Season of the Witch(2011)(Black Plague and witches), and Night Watch(2004)/ Day Watch(2006)(with its mention of ancient peace pacts), but it still managed to do its own thing. Was aktly a pretty kewl movie! Not quite -super- kewl (so not crucial), but it had a lot of creative witch sets (underground lairs, tree fortresses, imagined apocalyptic futures where the Earth reclaims the world, etc.), and it minimized religious aspects, even separating Vin Diesel’s character from them (they seem to be moving towards a “beyond good and evil” thing). “The Last Witch Hunter” (2015) Movie Review