Like we’ve seen happen with a few other cases of films that were initially box office duds, the fans of the movie have seemingly been growing due to the film’s availability on VOD/home release, according to what Diesel told Collider. It most definitely wasn’t without fault, but I thought The Last Witch Hunter was a solid enough gritty fantasy romp that did not deserve the critical lambasting it received.Īnd looking at the fact that the film’s audience score on Metacritic is actually sitting on a much more palatable average of 6.5/10, I’m apparently not alone. And a number of people who I spoke to who had seen it at the time liked it as well. Here’s the thing though: I kind of liked the movie.
With $146 million made globally off a budget reportedly as high as $90 million (which, according to Hollywood maths, means it probably just barely broke even) and an average critic score on Metacritic of just 34/100, it was most definitely one of Diesel’s least successful attempts at a franchise. It was also a gigantic bomb both with critics and at the box office. The 2015 fantasy-action film starred Vin Diesel as an 800-year old witch hunter cursed with immortality, who works for a mystical order (which includes priests played by Michael Caine and Elijah Wood) that secretly protects the world from dark magic.
Did you ever see The Last Witch Hunter? I would forgive you if you hadn’t.
