Along the way Kaulder acquires a lively sidekick (Rose Leslie, who gives the movie a boost), a beneficent witch with special powers who runs a tavern serving various inebriating and magical potions.ĭirector Breck Eisner (son of onetime Hollywood kingpin Michael Eisner) seems to be aiming squarely at the fanboys, since many of the effects suggest role-playing video games with magical and medieval themes. This kind of quest demands plentiful special effects, and that’s what we get - mostly images of fire, disgusting bugs and creepy trees with slithering limbs. When the current Dolan (Michael Caine, coasting) is put under a curse, Kaulder works with his successor (Elijah Wood) to rescue him - and, of course, the rest of humanity. Kaulder keeps tabs on them, smacking down the worst ones and working for a dynasty of Catholic priests known as the Dolan (I’ll leave it to you to decide what that’s supposed to mean). Witches now coexist with humans in an uneasy truce, though the really bad ones are imprisoned.
So hundreds of years later he’s still pursuing witches, living in a fancy Manhattan apartment, but minus the beard and weird hairdo. We first meet the usually affable Diesel as a 14th-century knight named Kaulder, with braided beard, hunting down the Witch Queen - seriously ugly! - who has unleashed the Black Death to destroy the human race.Īs they battle, she curses him with immortality.
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