YMMV / The Last Witch Hunter

• Alternate Character Interpretation:
  • The nature of Kaulder and Chloe's relationship. As a kiss was filmed, but cut from the finished film, it's likely it was intended to be romantic. However others have interpreted it as more of a father/daughter relationship, as Kaulder never got to see his own daughter grow up.
  • Some might find the Witch Queen to be a Psychopathic Womanchild given how she complains about having to share a world with magicless humans.
• Awesome Music: Ciara's cover of The Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black".
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: It... takes a while (and a short visit to the fridge) to figure out what happens in the scene in Chloe's house.
• Complete Monster: The Witch Queen was defined by her contempt towards humanity, which she wished to destroy. Centuries ago, she created The Black Death as a means of eradicating humanity; this would go on to cause the deaths of millions of people in Europe, Kaulder's wife and daughter included. When it seemed as though Kaulder had defeated her, the Queen curses Kaulder with immortality. Years later, she was revived by Belial, and tries to unleash swarms of demonic black flies onto the populace of New York by using the inmates of the Witch Prison to complete the Chant. When one of the witches was severed from the chant, the Witch Queen compensated for this by linking Chloe, a Dream Walker, to the Chant. She also takes her time to psychologically torment Kaulder by bringing up his past guilt, and by showing him visions of a world devoid of humans.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Chloe seems to be the favourite character in the movie, with many praising Rose Leslie's performance.
• Funny Moments:
  • Chloe trying to take a selfie with unconscious Kaulder. The problem is he's not unconscious, and nearly gives poor Chloe a heart attack.
    Chloe: Say "Witch Hunter".
    Kaulder: Witch Hunter.
    Chloe: AAAGH!
  • The sight of Chloe trying to extinguish the huge, towering, roaring inferno consuming her bar with a dinky little fire extinguisher.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Foreign box office was nearly triple the domestic gross (enabling the film to surpass its $90 million budget), with great income from Russia and Brazil.
• Heartwarming Moments: After Chloe, angry at world's treatment of witches, mentions Salem, Kaulder notes that the "witches" in Salem were innocent and that the trial was a mistake. Chloe states that he wouldn't care about fairness of trial if it were real witches like her. He tells her he would, and you can see that the Witch Hunter is being absolutely honest. Chloe's reaction shows that her heart, for one, was warmed.
• Narm:
  • "There's only one way to remember my death: magic." As said by Vin freakin' Diesel in an utterly serious tone.
  • "There are worse things down there... waiting until you're gone." It's not as much the text itself as it's the way Chloe tells it to Kaulder in the voice that makes it seem like a holy revelation rather than Sequel Hook. In all likelihood, Chloe is referring to the Witch Lords, the five siblings of the Witch Queen.
  • Kaulder's sword constantly catching fire counts as this to anyone who knows anything about swords. That sort of treatment would ruin the temper and render the sword brittle and easily-broken under the stresses of combat, especially since it's heavily implied to be the same one he slew the Witch-Queen with the first time.
• Narm Charm: Quite a few reviewers noted that even though they found the film mediocre at best, they still enjoyed watching it, mainly thanks to the fact that Vin Diesel is clearly having a time of his life and it's infectious.
• Nausea Fuel: The image and sounds of Kaulder's bones resetting themselves after he breaks them to get out of handcuffs. That's not how a hand should look like, that's not how bones should move, and the cracking of them will make your own hand hurt.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Chloe's mention of "worse things" in Ellic's mind is clearly intended to be this. Your call, troper, whether it succeeds.
  • The scene in Chloe's house, especially when she's pulled into the portal and comes face to face with... something that's never actually explained.
  • One of the deadliest plagues in history is let loose on one of busiest cities in the world. Imagine what would happen. Back in fourteenth century, Black Death wiped out nearly a third of European population. With current levels of international communication - not to mention that we're still not sure what the Black Death was, exactly, meaning we may not actually have a vaccine or cure - it would be much worse. The icing on the cake: that just considering the Black Death as a mundane, however deadly, illness. In the movie, it's magic: it would be impossible to find a cure.
  • Kaulder's condition after killing the Queen in the past: by the time Dolan and the others find him, he's a half-charred skeleton...who snaps awake with a distorted gasp when Dolan starts praying over him. The fact he had been shown to heal in seconds after being cursed with immortality is a is a testament to how horrific his burns are at that point as he had been kneeling there in that condition for some time before they found him. Then it gets even worse as Dolan moves to destroy the Queen's heart for good and Kaulder starts howling in agony through half-melted vocal cords.
• Periphery Demographic: There is a joke in gaming circles that a well-known nerd was turned down with his Hunter: The Reckoning module by the publisher, so he made a movie instead. A significant part of the movie goers were fans of various WoD games, and over time, it gained small, cult-like following in broader TTRPG cycles as a "how to make a basic urban fantasy scenario" guide.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Some viewers expected Bronwyn, the teenage witch in the plane whom Kaulder helps out, to reappear at some point and have a more significant role.

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