The Last Witch Hunter review - can Vin Diesel defeat misogynist idiocy? Nope

Now Kaulder is an 800-year-old New Yorker, banging flight attendants whenever he's not out fighting witches.

The fantasy adventure production was hiding in plain sight, filming inside the former Union National Bank building at Fourth Avenue and Wood Street, where the home of Diesel's character, Kaulder, was constructed and richly appointed. As a undisputed B-movie, The Last Witch Hunter treads a fine line between boom and bust, the same tread by the likes of The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Sergei Bodrov's Seventh Son.

We first meet Diesel's Kaulder eight centuries ago, storming a remote witch cave in animal skins and a bald-and-bearded facial style that would look pretty good on Andy Samberg.

"One of the challenges of the movie is certainly that we didn't have the budget of a Marvel movie or a "Fast and Furious" movie, if you will", Eisner said. Flaming red hair, awesome accent and riveting eyes - a bit stereotypical perhaps but I didn't have a single problem with it. Caine as the 36 Dolan cares for Kaulder but it's a mixed bag when there are secrets involved.

Diesel found the filming of "The Last Witch Hunter" not only a creative outlet but a form of therapy, especially since it explores the theme of immortality.

Film facts: Stars Vin Diesel, Elijah Wood, Rose Leslie, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Julie Engelbrecht and Michael Caine. For director Breck Eisner and his screenwriters, the magic word is "randomly": Randomly, Eisner keeps whipping up freaky digital effects, then explaining what happened later, if at all.

Unlike so many movies today, "Last Witch Hunter" is not a sequel, remake, reboot, adaptation of a book or graphic novel or certainly inspired by a true incident, as far as anyone knows or hopes. It makes you stop and wonder. Father Dolan (Michael Caine) is his close advisor and associate for the past fifty years.

The movie is actually based on on of Diesel's favourite hobbies, Dungeons and Dragons.

Kaulder seems happy enough with his lot in everlasting life - he potters about wreaking havoc and even manages to seduce an air stewardess, despite being 800 years old. Even when I play popular new games, I always opt for a character that shape-shifts. Fast-forward to modern-day Manhattan, where he’s for all intents and purposes a police detective, tracking down witches who have violated the truce worked out with mortals — by manipulating the weather or a few other magical infraction — and bringing them before a tribunal, at which point they do not get burned at the stake but locked up in an enchanted subterranean hoosegow. The Axe & Cross, a brotherhood of priests, was tasked with protecting their unkillable asset, allowing him to live through countless times in the pursuit of witches.

"They do it for profit too and that's the dark side of fame", Diesel said of paparazzi and those who publish articles in magazines about weight.