The Last Witch Hunter
Summit Entertainment | Release Date: October 23, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
34
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
7
Negative:
12
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsOct 22, 2015
While most other films sprint through expository dialogue, and bluster their way through action scenes, The Last Witch Hunter is measured enough to make you want to suspend your disbelief. Read full review
70
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlOct 22, 2015
The story works out like you might expect. The joys are in the way director Breck Eisner, like Diesel, is earnest about this goofiness. His direction might not showcase the full wit of the script, but it does honor its inventiveness. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineKenji FujishimaOct 21, 2015
It has enough ingredients for a reasonably entertaining fantasy adventure—except, that is, for an interesting lead character with an emotionally compelling hook. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyOct 21, 2015
It’s a shame that The Last Witch Hunter ends up crumbling into another generic showdown of murky fantasy effects and snatched artifacts, with a final shot that is literally framed around a door to possible sequels. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Manori RavindranOct 29, 2015
The Last Witch Hunter is redeemed through complex visual-effects work that aptly illuminates Goodman’s netherworld. Further, Diesel’s stolid performance is balanced through the supporting star power of Caine – even with criminally limited scenes – and Rose Leslie’s “dream walker,” whose earnestness makes even the world of a macho witch hunter seem entirely plausible. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliOct 26, 2015
The Last Witch Hunter feels like the first episode of a would-be series although, unlike some similar endeavors, it tells a stand-alone story. Read full review
50
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanOct 22, 2015
As Kaulder, Diesel does what he does, rumbling out lines of silly dialogue in his subwoofer of a voice. As far as acting goes, there’s not much. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonOct 19, 2015
In its favor, The Last Witch Hunter boasts some terrific production design and digital effects.... Less impressively, Eisner’s movie is clogged with cardboard characters, flat dialogue and a sluggish middle act that gets lost in too much fabricated witchy folklore. Read full review
45
TheWrapInkoo KangOct 21, 2015
The Last Witch Hunter aims for pulpy, comic-book fun, but it’s never as fleet, funny, or detailed as it needs to be. And if you’re looking for something above middling in terms of plot, characters, world-building, even action sequences, you’ll need to seek it elsewhere. Read full review
40
Screen DailyWendy IdeOct 19, 2015
Like its star, The Last Witch Hunter is big, overblown and frequently incomprehensible. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTom RussoOct 22, 2015
The script’s messy seams also show in the parade of sidekicks that passes through Kaulder’s door as a new threat develops. Read full review
33
Entertainment WeeklyKyle AndersonOct 22, 2015
Seemingly every time there was an opportunity to do something fun, The Last Witch Hunter runs in the other direction, creating an unfortunately heavy-handed, humorless, self-serious tone for a story that should be allowed to be a little goofy. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriOct 23, 2015
Watching The Last Witch Hunter is like sitting by while someone else plays a game whose coolness eludes us. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleOct 22, 2015
The Last Witch Hunter is one of those artlessly restless, exposition-dialogue fantasy-action slogs that, thanks to Breck Eisner's untamed direction, never manages to corral all the potion talk, mythology rationale and leaps back and forth in time into anything remotely entertaining. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovOct 21, 2015
Director Eisner helmed the excellent remake of George R. Romero’s The Crazies back in 2010, but this film shows none of the lunatic flair for the ghastly that the previous film so easily served up. Read full review
25
Movie NationRoger MooreNov 11, 2015
This abortion of a thriller fails, utterly, and bombed completely. So even though there’s a “Witch Hunter 2” in development, don’t count on it. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithOct 22, 2015
The movie left me amazed — amazed that Nicolas Cage wasn’t in it. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoOct 22, 2015
There are two main obstacles to enjoying The Last Witch Hunter. One is your ability to buy Vin Diesel as an immortal slayer of evildoers plying his trade in today’s Manhattan. You also have to swallow a by-the-numbers plot buried under an avalanche of fast-and-furious but underwhelming CGI effects. Read full review
20
The New York TimesAndy WebsterOct 22, 2015
A smorgasbord of empty calories, the Vin Diesel vehicle The Last Witch Hunter, for all its overstuffed visuals, leaves you hungry. But not for more. Read full review
20
Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonOct 20, 2015
This is a relentlessly unengaging affair, its derivative and logic-deficient script matched by flat direction and fussy, unconvincing CGI. Read full review
20
VarietyGuy LodgeOct 19, 2015
There are certainly enough dopey diversions here for The Last Witch Hunter to be considerably more fun than it is, but even its most extravagant bouts of silliness are hampered by desultory plotting and Eisner’s oppressively synthetic mise-en-scene. Read full review
12
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperOct 22, 2015
It’s just deadly and dreadful, loud and obnoxious, convoluted and irritating, horrible and dumb. Read full review
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