Actors: Vin Diesel, Rose Leslie, Elijah
Wood, Michael Caine, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson,Julie Engelbrecht
Rating: 8 out of 10, I liked this a
lot better on my second viewing. Vin Diesel smirks his way through as an immortal
hunter of magically endowed broom riders and is the only redeeming aspect to
the film, well he and the odd Wilding, red headed witch. Michael Caine is only
around for a couple scenes before sleeping off the rest of the plot. There are
some good action scenes but the director then slows the momentum to a virtual
standstill, for no appreciable reason. They obviously toned this down to
achieve the PG rating. I think it would have made a kick ass R rated action
movie, but we’ll never know. Frodo’s around looking decidedly less dangerous
than the 90 year old Caine and Walter Mitty’s drunk helicopter pilot is
appropriately scary. They were definitely aiming at a series of movies with
this character – I think that hope died with the release of this. It’s a shame
because Diesel has screen presence to spare and totally inhabited the 800 year
old hunter.
MVP: Vin Diesel as Kaulder the
immortal hunter
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