The former apparently dies in his sleep that night. The 36th Dolan tells Kaulder that he is retiring from his duties and has chosen a new Dolan for him. He is aided by a priest called “Dolan”, a tradition carried from the first priest who fought in the battle to destroy the Witch Queen. Kaulder is revealed to be working as a witch hunter for the Order of the Axe and Cross, an organization which aims to keep the truce between humans and witches (allowing witches to live freely providing they do not use magic on humans) and either executes or imprisons the witches who break the law. But he remains as tough and intensely likeable as ever.In the present day, Kaulder prevents a teenage witch, Bronwyn, from unintentionally destroying an airplane with weather-controlling runes stored in her luggage. Kaulder wields an Excalibur-like sword and even smiles a bit, a far cry from his unsmiling Fast and Furious persona.
The action scenes are OK (Diesel does far far better in his Fast and Furious series) But the production design, CGI, special effects, and make-up deserve an ‘A’, for portraying a world where magic lurks round the corner. As it turns out memory holds the key, the memory of a crucial moment forgotten by Kaulder during his battle with the Witch Queen. Now Kaulder,the naïve new successor Dolan (Elijah Wood, earnest) and the good witch form an unlikely team that investigates a conspiracy that threatens to resurrect the Witch. I’ve been alone these 800 years” Kaulder tells a good witch (Rose Leslie) and it’s not a line he’s maraoing her. “Find someone (to love)” he tells Kaulder whose relationships seem to be confined to sexcapades with air hostesses, just before he is murdered by the Queen witch’s wicked henchman Belial ( Olafir Darri Olafsson)”Alone. A priest, the 36th Dolan(Michael Caine) to give him his title is Kaulder’s friend,philosopher and guide.
The story begins in the Dark ages with Kaulder (Diesel) leading a team of witch hunters to find the Witch Queen (Julie Engelbrecht) who has been responsible for many ills, including the Black Death plague.ĭream-like flashbacks show us the grief-stricken Kaulder yearning for his beloved wife and daughter who were killed by the witch.In a fight to the finish with the Witch,Kaulder finds himself cursed with immortality.Ĭut to the present day in New York City where we see he has allied himself with The Axe and Cross, an ancient secret priestly organization that upholds the truce between man and witches.
Gravelly-voiced Vin Diesel is the titular hero in this supernatural fantasy thriller which starts with a voice over narration telling viewers that witches have existed alongside humans since the beginning of time (ha ha:-). The Enlightenment (ie reason and humanity) stopped the persecution of witches in the West, though it’s a different story closer home with reports, mercifully infrequent, of women, usually from poverty-stricken rural areas, being killed for witchcraft. As far back as the 4th century, St Augustine of Hippo argued that witchcraft was impossible since God alone could overturn the laws of the universe.Even the late medieval Church had accepted the theologian-saint’s view, but this did not stop heresies which resulted in the killing of “witches.”Significantly, 80% of those hanged/burnt at the stake for witchcraft were women.
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Your reviewer is waiting, patiently, for a movie that will hopefully, squash once and for all, the myth about witches. Cast: Vin Diesel, Michael Caine,Rose Leslie, Elijah Wood, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
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