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If itвЂ™s big budget Hollywood and we must live with CGI color blasts and black insect swarms, then The Last Witch Hunter shows the best fit path.Д¬oncept art I did for The Last Witch Hunter. Magic in The Last Witch Hunter is relentlessly inventive, with gummy trees, invisible barriers, bone-pile monsters, and candied cherry decoctions. For magic to work on-screen it needs to feel deliberate but whimsical, part of a ritual process with internal logic thatвЂ™s neither too sloppy nor too ploddingly rigorous. The Last Witch Hunter gets magic better than any other movie of its type. вЂњItвЂ™s simple science,вЂќ says Kaulder as he pours magic salts over two sparking weather stones, tracked down after he uncovers magical runes using the condensation in his breath and touches a goth-y teen with his witch detection ring. We catch up with him in 2015, now вЂњThe WeaponвЂќ of the Catholic Church as it rigorously polices a delicate worldwide truce with the Witch Council, a peace thatвЂ™s about to be shattered with the Witch QueenвЂ™s return.Дon't know what the last witch hunter is but if it means I get more pictures of Vin diesel with a big wooly beard it's ok in my book. Banishing the Witch Queen and her alien xenomorph headdress, Kaulder is вЂњcursedвЂќ with immortality. Opening in the 13th century, as Kaulder and his fellow knights hack and slash into the heart of Yggdrasil, the prologue is loaded with enviable beards and flaming swords. The Last Witch Hunter doesnвЂ™t hold together, but it can be beautiful falling apart. The romance between Kaulder (Vin Diesel) and Chloe (Rose вЂњYou know nothing, Jon SnowвЂќ Leslie) has all the heat of a wet sock and every character who isnвЂ™t Vin Diesel feels just as perfunctory.

The conspiracy to reawaken the Witch Queen in modern days is nonsense, driven by a hairy dunce who can barely manage to burn down a witch bar (a minor delight in The Last Witch Hunter is the appropriation of the jokey sci-fi tendency to throw вЂњspaceвЂќ in front of mundane nouns, just with the word вЂњwitchвЂќ). There is a lot to dislike about The Last Witch Hunter. The Last Witch Hunter is everything I love about terrible genre movies. Though working in the flooded horror-action fantasy mold, The Last Witch Hunter is dotted with kitschy specificity that elevate Vin DieselвЂ™s latest-if only in sporadic jags-over dreck like Dracula Untold, Seventh Son, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, and I, Frankenstein. The Last Witch Hunter is studded with such instances. ItвЂ™s rare to find something so glittering and simple in its garish timeliness that we can recognize it in the moment.

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