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Breck EisnerCamera:
Dean SemlerMuziek:
Steve JablonskyActeurs:
Vin Diesel, Rose Leslie, Elijah Wood, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Rena Owen, Julie Engelbrecht, Joe Gilgun, Isaach De Bankolé, Michael Halsey, Lotte Verbeek (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
In de moderne wereld verschuilen vele geheimen, maar het meest verbazingwekkende geheim is dat er nog altijd heksen onder ons leven; deze bovennatuurlijke wezens hebben het voornemen om de Zware Dood op de wereld los te laten. Legers van heksenjagers over de hele wereld vechten al eeuwen tegen de bovennatuurlijke vijand. Kaulder (Vin Diesel), een dappere krijger, is het gelukt om de almachtige Koningin der heksen (Julie Engelbrecht) te doden en moordde daarbij ook een deel van haar volgers uit. Maar vlak voor haar dood vervloekte de Koningin Kaulder met haar eigen onsterfelijkheid, waardoor hij voor altijd wordt gescheiden van zijn geliefde vrouw en dochter in het hiernamaals. Vandaag de dag is Kaulder de enige overblijvende in zijn soort. Hij heeft de afgelopen eeuwen doorgebracht met het jagen op heksen en altijd verlangd naar zijn verloren geliefden. Wat Kaulder echter niet weet, is dat de Koningin herrezen is uit de dood en wraak zoekt op haar moordenaar. Deze epische strijd gaat bepalen of het mensenras kan overleven. (Independent Films)
(meer)Recensie (6)
I have a cheap script of a zero value and I want to make a blockbuster out of it. To be taken at least a little seriously, I will pay to get Michael Caine in on it, although I will be embarrassed in front of him on the set. I won’t ask him whether he finished reading said script. In an effort to create a Dark Knight-like atmosphere, I will also task Jablonsky with creating some imitation of the of Zimmer’s monumental Batman scores. For the lead role, I will choose the most wooden, but globally popular action star, which will sensibly sort my target audience out to the unpretentious consumers of brainless entertainment. And I’m going to flood it all with secondhand digital garbage, which cannot even show a car speeding down a New York street from a high perspective. The feeling when you are so frustrated after a movie that brought you zero viewing satisfaction that you need to watch any other movie quickly in order to forget it and to leave you with ANY KIND of an impression, knowledge or satisfaction from the evening.
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Slow and not-so-furious. The idea itself isn't bad at all, but the story is poor for how serious it is, there are no wisecracks (well, maybe two), there’s surprisingly very little action and not very impressive, unfortunately (the 90 million budget could have been used much better). A pathetic three stars for not suffering while watching it. The film is suitable for a rainy Sunday afternoon for the whole family. Not worth going to the cinema for. Seventh Son was considerably better. 55%.
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I wasn't expecting much from this, so when I found the beginning to be pretty entertaining, I was very surprised and wondered why it got such a low rating. And then it all became clear during the film. Kaulder is lame, the fights are even more so, and for being only 107 minutes long I thought it might be over after the 70th minute, it was kind of long. I was entertained until about the time Kaulder gets his gnocchi on, but there was nothing more interesting than that. Pretty mediocre, below average action fantasy.
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A movie with a tree that gummy bears grow on can’t be all bad. Diesel tries to operate outside his three regular personas (Riddick, Toretto, Cage), but still without great success. It doesn’t work very well here. This fantasy is suspiciously reminiscent of something I wanted to see when I was into Conan as a boy. In the end, it’s fairly watchable and makes sense. A bit more work on the screenplay wouldn’t have hurt, but it’s ok. Rose Leslie makes it ten times better. Michael Caine’s line at the end is just cool. Not in the theater, but at home.
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The Last Witch Hunter is an average fantasy flick, laced through and through with action and all sorts of magic. It benefits in particular from a likeable cast that balances the simplicity of the script, which reeks of cliché. One of a bunch of one-viewing films that neither impresses nor offends.
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It's a terrible shame that this film plays it safe and the story is incredibly straightforward and very expected. But the world presented here entertained me; it's a nicely crafted B-movie that has characters I personally really like. It's visually interesting, it's got a bit of Constantine about it, but it's also its own thing. You just know right away how it's gonna turn out. You mustn't look for anything big in it.
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