He isn't portrayed as a scholar or wizard: just a good man who happens to be cursed. That experience might make some people very quiet, and I found Vin Diesel's interpretation believable and appropriate. Why do people expect someone to be Shakespeare, simply because they lived 800 years. The Character is written tersely for a reason. Most of the criticism seemed to revolve around expectations of Vin Diesels performance. I felt like the scene changes and juxtaposing modern/mythical images did a good job of sliding the viewer into the otherworldliness of the script. Some parts of the movie felt really similar to The Exorcist II (Boorman), and I appreciated the lucidity and metaphysics embedded in the plot. Yet he is a man of action, not ideas, and gets it on with a pert female flight attendant in his hotel room, the kind of move you may associate more with Austin Powers.This movie has garnered a lot of criticism, and to be honest, I'm a little surprised. He says solemnly: “Salem was wrong.” Wow. Kaulder is not unaware of the controversies associated with witch-hunting. They are the bad witches, you understand, who have infringed a peace-accord understanding with good witches policed by an ancient brotherhood of priests, among whom is Dolan, played by Michael Caine, and a younger priest, also called Dolan (Elijah Wood) whose dog collar gets later secularised into a white polo-neck. In this dismal and dull film, Diesel plays Kaulder, a guy who has been alive for 800 years, on an eternal mission to fight the witches who live secretly among us. So let’s deconstruct that satirically with a film starring me as a macho witch hunter battling an evil female.” Witch-hating is a misogynist paranoid phenomenon. I want to make an action-thriller on a witch-hunting theme as well, though obviously I can’t aspire to being as good as that film with Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton as Hansel and Gretel.” Or did Diesel point to a shelf of books about the history of witchcraft and rumble to his colleagues: “Yeah. D id Vin Diesel watch the 2013 film Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters and say to his associates in that trademark rumbly voice: “Yeah.
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