Name : Stephen Dalton / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Fast and furious on the surface, shallow and conventional beneath, Diesel's bid to carve himself another billion-dollar franchise is off to a good start with this mainstream crowd-pleaser.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
The dependable Diesel and a fine cast keep this hokey action flick mostly entertaining.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
Watching The Last Witch Hunter is like sitting by while someone else plays a game whose coolness eludes us.

Name : Alex Pappademas / Alias : Grantland
A feature film that feels like a longish TV pilot.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
The Last Witch Hunter is so drenched in CGI effects, it looks as if it's been dunked in a vat of lacquer.

Name : Bruce Kirkland / Alias : Toronto Sun
It is not even bad enough to be good camp comedy.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
Unfortunately, a film needs more than Diesel's Stallone-ish appeal to succeed and that's where The Last Witch Hunter is found lacking.

Name : Andrew Lapin / Alias : NPR
Some action heroes take themselves too seriously, or think they're making popcorn fun when they're really filleting us with endless rounds of ammunition. Not Diesel .

Name : Guy Lodge / Alias : Variety
Too drab to succeed even as defiantly unvirtuous trash . stifles Diesel's rough-hewn charisma via a sludgy, impermeable oil spill of CGI effects - in the service of largely unspectacular hocus pocus.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
The Last Witch Hunter ends up crumbling into another generic showdown of murky fantasy effects and snatched artifacts, with a final shot that is literally framed around a door to possible sequels.

Name : Tom Russo / Alias : Boston Globe
Even with Diesel's oblivious self-miscasting - he's a producer on the film - "Witch Hunter" feels like genre material that might have found a way to work.

Name : Walter V. Addiego / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
You . have to swallow a by-the-numbers plot buried under an avalanche of fast-and-furious but underwhelming CGI effects.

Name : Inkoo Kang / Alias : TheWrap
"The Last Witch Hunter" aims for pulpy, comic-book fun, but it's never as fleet, funny, or detailed as it needs to be. If you're looking for something above middling in terms of plot, characters, [or] world-building, you'll need to seek it elsewhere.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
The movie left me amazed - amazed that Nicolas Cage wasn't in it.

Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
Vin Diesel may not run smoothly, but he runs with purpose and conviction, and any line of dialogue processed through him comes out sounding like he believes it, even the sentimental ones.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
The special-effects-laden fight scenes are ho-hum, incoherent and badly lit. It's often hard to tell what some warlock or scorpion-like beast is doing and to whom.

Name : Kyle Anderson / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
The only thing The Last Witch Hunter will successfully eradicate is insomnia.

Name : Andy Webster / Alias : New York Times
A smorgasbord of empty calories, the Vin Diesel vehicle "The Last Witch Hunter," for all its overstuffed visuals, leaves you hungry. But not for more.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
The screenplay by a trio of writers is muddled and goofy and riddled with cliches.

Name : Ben Sachs / Alias : Chicago Reader
The special effects are pretty neat, and the filmmakers utilize them smartly, delivering imaginative set pieces that are more visually compelling than the usual series of digital explosions.

Name : Robert Abele / Alias : Los Angeles Times
One of those artlessly restless, exposition-dialogue fantasy-action slogs .

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
It's the kind of roller-coaster Hollywood churns out seemingly in its sleep, oversaturated with effects shots and plot implausibilities. Ten minutes after you've seen it, you'll have forgotten all about it.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
What an ugly, idiotic mess this is.

Name : Manori Ravindran / Alias : Globe and Mail
Seemingly at every juncture, the finality so necessary to up the stakes of this story is quickly snatched away in order to tease a sequel or two, leaving you wondering what the point of this supernatural exercise was in the first place.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
A sequel so slapdash and ineffectual that its army of directors-six of them total, counting the poor sucker whose contribution got axed-might well be accused of intentionally burying the franchise.

Name : Peter Debruge / Alias : Variety
Three playful yet thoroughly disposable experiments in short-form p.o.v. cinema.

Name : Simon Abrams / Alias : Village Voice
[Its] pleasures barely compensate for the vapidity of V/H/S: Viral's sketches.

Name : Doug Knoop / Alias : Seattle Times
I couldn't wait to hit eject on this whole jittery mess.