Priest

Movies about vampires go back for decades, and having a sect of holy men leading a fight against them goes back almost as long. Priest is a movie set in a post apocalyptic future where animalistic vampires have been fighting with humans for generations. Despite technological advances, humankind slowly is losing the war. They create giant, walled cities to protect their remaining numbers, and discover their only hope of defeating the vampires lies in their training of priests, ironically. These priests somehow attain supernatural speed and strength and use the generous funding of the church to gain specialized weapons for taking out the vampires. Once the priests succeed in single-handedly winning the war, the vampires that remain are herded into reserves. With the war over, the priests are sent back into the general population, where they fade into obscurity. For a time, everything seems peaceful. (Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked...)

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The movie has some decent action scenes, which it should for a movie with so many plot holes. The origin of the superhuman priests is never discussed, other than that they a chosen by the church and trained to fight the vampires. The characters have just enough depth to keep the viewers attention, but have little history or development.

The opening animation. The whole movie should have been done like this.

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Honestly, the best part of the movie is the opening animated sequence. It give the most story, has well animated action, and would make for a more interesting movie, in my opinion. This is probably because the movie is based on a Korean graphic novel, Priest by Hyung Min-Woo.

Story: 2 out of 5
Really. There's not a lot explained for backstory and the characters lack depth. Certainly an action movie, and that's all.

Visual: 4 out of 5
The opening animation is cool, some of the fights are cool, and I've definitely seen worse CG monsters.

Overall: 3 out of 5
Priest is an action movie to the core. The story is fairly weak, but the action scenes are pretty good. I think it's worth one watch, but don't go in with huge expectations.


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