![]() Still, queen bee is understandably pissed at the uninvited sausage party, and duly curses Kaulder to a life eternal before she’s dispatched into interdimensional purgatory. ![]() He and his band of male do-gooders wage pitch battle against an almighty Evil Witch (played by European actress Julie Engelbrecht, natch), who appears to derive most of her power from millions of angry Slipknot fan t-shirts. Though rooted in a near-fatal cocktail of misogyny and religiosity, Witch Hunter’s medieval-set prologue has an off-kilter, Herzog-by-way-of-RPG grandeur, with Diesel’s zealous warrior Kaulder grunting and glowering and sporting enough braided yaks on his chin to shame an entire generation of artisanal barkeeps. It may not be a good film, but it’s made-or at least, acted-with a bizarre affection that goes a long way toward being endearing. A similar brand of inscrutable sincerity informs the new Vin Diesel vehicle The Last Witch Hunter, which riffs on the gravel-voiced star’s apparent taste for Dungeons & Dragons and reworks it into a creaky action-fantasy thriller. Promoting his off-season fantasy Season of the Witch a few years back, a deadly earnest (or beautifully pranking) Nicolas Cage referred to his then-current acting style as “nouveau shamanic,” while professing his great love for the movie’s disreputable sub-genre. ![]()
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