![]() Everyone involved knows the audience can grasp a fantastical setup on the fly. Kaulder reports to some vague Witch Council, and he's partnered for centuries with helpmeet priests (Elijah Wood as the new guy Michael Caine as the one in his last week before retirement), but the movie leaves it to you to work out the geeky specifics. ![]() Turns out 800 years back Diesel's character - Kaulder - got cursed, and now he's doomed to spend the rest of eternity stomping witches in Manhattan, a fate he finds enjoyable and highly remunerative. For now, we have The Last Witch Hunter, a $90 million supernatural time-killer that's mostly set in the here and now rather than in, say, Gary Gygax's Greyhawk, although the prologue is a not-bad nighttime RPG sword-and-sorcery adventure. Some ambitious young screenwriter should send Vin Diesel 100 plotless pages of dungeon-delving and dragon-bashing, as that seems to be the movie he's looking for. ![]()
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