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. At least they didn't murder another book series, like they did with Seventh Son, where they had all the story and characters and fan base from the books and still they messed it up somehow.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. Bottom line: just go, turn your brain off and enjoy. That alone would have easily turned it into a pretty cool movie, but then mothers wouldn't have let their preciouses go to the theaters, those that would chose to even distribute it. What else can you cram in there? Opera? Character development before he kills everybody? They could have gone with more realistic and complex fight scenes, more horror, make it R rated, perhaps. It's a one hour and a half story in which Vin Diesel destroys witches. Yes! The thing that one must realize is that even if someone would have wanted to make the effort to make the film better, for art's sake, no matter they would have gotten the same amount of money in the end, there wasn't much they could have done. Is it a blockbuster movie that can entertain.
However, a storm of bad publicity that rose out of nothing (magic perhaps? Who put those runes together like that?) made everyone bad mouth it like little parrots.
In the end you get exactly what you expected, no more, no less. The film is reasonably acted (Vin Diesel is perfect until he tries to smile) and the script is a typical adventure fiction story.
In the end the obvious thing at the beginning of the movie becomes the secret that threatens the world once again. Together with lovely Rose Leslie, he saves the world from the bad witches, alone, and still ignorant of the machinations around him.
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