- Studio: Screen Gems
- Release Date: May 13, 2011
- Starring: Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q, Paul Bettany
- Summary:
- Director: Scott Stewart
- Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Horror
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 13
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Mixed: 10 out of 13
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Negative: 2 out of 13
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75To Stewart and screenwriter Cory Goodman's credit, the whole set up takes about 10 minutes flat, leaving Priest's remaining 77 minutes to the dark, desolate action at hand. Even more to their credit, there's something evocative in that darkness, something poetic in its desolation.
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May 11, 201160In an era where monster mythology has become raw material for all sorts of mediocrity, Priest is one of the best examples of a broad-scale vampire blockbuster.
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60It appears that turning the John Ford/John Wayne classic "The Searchers" into the church-vs-vampire adventure Priest was not an altogether god-awful idea. As long as we don't get "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" as an elegiac zombie drama, this adaptation of a graphic novel has some bite.
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38A mad mash-up of sci-fi, Western, sacrilegious silliness and vampire movie. What lifts it to "I've seen worse" status is the previous teaming of star and director Scott Stewart, who last gave us the archangel fighting off other angels fiasco "Legion."
Score distribution:
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Positive: 24 out of 68
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Mixed: 22 out of 68
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Negative: 22 out of 68
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8This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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"Priest" tries to tame the wild SF+horror+western genre with impressive CGI. Ultimately, the movie is what you will expect.
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