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Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: The screenplay by a trio of writers is muddled and goofy and riddled with cliches. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: The movie left me amazed - amazed that Nicolas Cage wasn't in it. Read more
Guy Lodge, Variety: Too drab to succeed even as defiantly unvirtuous trash ... stifles Diesel's rough-hewn charisma via a sludgy, impermeable oil spill of CGI effects - in the service of largely unspectacular hocus pocus. Read more
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: 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 more
Tom Russo, Boston Globe: Even with Diesel's oblivious self-miscasting - he's a producer on the film - "Witch Hunter" feels like genre material that might have found a way to work. Read more
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader: The special effects are pretty neat, and the filmmakers utilize them smartly, delivering imaginative set pieces that are more visually compelling than the usual series of digital explosions. Read more
Kyle Anderson, Entertainment Weekly: The only thing The Last Witch Hunter will successfully eradicate is insomnia. Read more
Stephen Dalton, Hollywood Reporter: Fast and furious on the surface, shallow and conventional beneath, Diesel's bid to carve himself another billion-dollar franchise is off to a good start with this mainstream crowd-pleaser. Read more
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: One of those artlessly restless, exposition-dialogue fantasy-action slogs ... Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: The dependable Diesel and a fine cast keep this hokey action flick mostly entertaining. Read more
Andrew Lapin, NPR: Some action heroes take themselves too seriously, or think they're making popcorn fun when they're really filleting us with endless rounds of ammunition. Not Diesel ... Read more
Andy Webster, New York Times: 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 more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Unfortunately, a film needs more than Diesel's Stallone-ish appeal to succeed and that's where The Last Witch Hunter is found lacking. Read more
Soren Anderson, Seattle Times: It's the kind of roller-coaster Hollywood churns out seemingly in its sleep, oversaturated with effects shots and plot implausibilities. Ten minutes after you've seen it, you'll have forgotten all about it. Read more
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: You ... have to swallow a by-the-numbers plot buried under an avalanche of fast-and-furious but underwhelming CGI effects. Read more
Manori Ravindran, Globe and Mail: Seemingly at every juncture, the finality so necessary to up the stakes of this story is quickly snatched away in order to tease a sequel or two, leaving you wondering what the point of this supernatural exercise was in the first place. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: The Last Witch Hunter is so drenched in CGI effects, it looks as if it's been dunked in a vat of lacquer. Read more
Bruce Kirkland, Toronto Sun: It is not even bad enough to be good camp comedy. Read more
Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice: Vin Diesel may not run smoothly, but he runs with purpose and conviction, and any line of dialogue processed through him comes out sounding like he believes it, even the sentimental ones. Read more
Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: Watching The Last Witch Hunter is like sitting by while someone else plays a game whose coolness eludes us. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: The special-effects-laden fight scenes are ho-hum, incoherent and badly lit. It's often hard to tell what some warlock or scorpion-like beast is doing and to whom. Read more