Despite the presence of a cathedral among the settings and a couple of priests in the cast, this hapless disaster doesn’t have a prayer of getting past a first installment. It’s equally incredible that the picture is being seriously mentioned as the start of a franchise. ![]() Instead of keeping to the Middle Ages it brings its hero into the twenty-first century, however, and rather than having him search for an apprentice it makes him immortal. It’s difficult to believe that “The Last Witch Hunter” is being billed as an “original.” True, it’s not adapted from a video game or a graphic novel, but it’s so cliché-ridden (not to mention absurd) that might as well be and though it was penned-presumably independently-by Cory Goodman, Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless (hardly a ringing endorsement their past work includes “Priest” and “Dracula Untold”)-its premise has much in common with the recent Jeff Bridges flop “The Seventh Son,” in which another medieval witch-hunter had to renew battle with a queen witch he’d earlier defeated.
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