Breck Eisner directs Vin Diesel, Rose Leslie and Elijah Wood in this fantasy actioner about an immortal witch hunter who finds himself investigating a conspiracy to revive the witch who cursed him to live forever. 

As a Vin Diesel vehicle where the big loveable lunk (a self confessed nerd) gets to live out his Dungeons and Dragons fantasies, this is better than you might have feared. As a shameless blend of Highlander and Constantine, it equally is still nowhere near as entertaining as those two influences combined should be. Oh well, the world building is strong, there’s rarely a scene without some clever bit of design or visual storytelling. But once the stakes are set up the detective story dawdles as we follow one clue bloodlessly to the next and so on and so on. The surprise baddie is guessable from the first shot. And Rose Leslie, so captivating and dynamic in Game of Thrones, gets fobbed off with a poor man’s Marion Ravenwood part here… one where she seemingly was only allowed one take per line reading. It is watchable but never exciting, squandering its strengths and potential inoffensively.

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