Pitch Black, which in 2000 encouraged the brooding tyro to flourish inside a tight genre frame, and its second sequel, Riddick, worked better partly because they were much more tightly budgeted ($23m and $38m respectively). Like the latter, The Last Witch Hunter – apparently inspired by Diesel’s own D&D character – is another pricey ($90m) indulgence of the actor’s taste for high fantasy, but there seems to be little broader appetite to follow him into big-canvas imaginative excursions. The gravel-chute-throated bruiser returned to the F&F series after big-budget diversions XXX and The Chronicles of Riddick failed him to secure a higher level of stardom in the mid-noughties. The $10.8m US debut for his new fantasy film The Last Witch Hunter is, even unadjusted for inflation, his second-worst result, just behind 2007 sci-fi film Babylon AD Witch Hunter didn’t do much better overseas, with the top two territories – the UK and Germany – failing to open higher than his last solo lead, 2013’s Riddick. The Fast and Furious franchise has become his fiefdom – but the reality is that he has little firepower as an action star outside of it. However, unbeknownst to Kaulder, the Witch Queen has been resurrected and seeks revenge on her killer, leading to an epic battle that will determine the survival of mankind.The clock is surely running down on the Vin Diesel project. Today, Kaulder is the last living hunter who has spent his immortal life tracking down rogue witches, all the while yearning for his long-lost family. In the moments right before her death, the Queen cursed Kaulder with immortality, forever separating him from his beloved wife and daughter. Armies of witch hunters have battled this unnatural enemy for centuries, including Kaulder, a valiant warrior who many years ago slayed the all-powerful Witch Queen, decimating her followers in the process.
The modern world holds many secrets, but by far the most astounding is that witches still live among us vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world and putting an end to the human race once and for all.
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