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Well I don't know why Paul Bettany always does the movies with the religous themes and why he always plays the lunatics but this is another of them.

There has been a war raging between humanity and the vapires for many centuries. At first mankind had a really hard time withstanding these unholy creatures but then came the "priests" Trained to kill vampires like farmers kill pigs they alone turned the tides of the war and the vampires almost went extinct.
The priest were put back into a society that no longer needed them, forced to work as janitors and so on.

But the vampires are returning stronger than maybe ever. The church denies this so the priest sets out on a journey on his own to seek out the truth and to find his vampire-abducted daughter and by doing so breaking his church vows and becoming an outlaw and criminal himself.




The most annoying aspect of the movie for me was that every actor was famous enough to be recognized but not from where. This resulted in my head almost exploding trying to figure out where they came from.
It turnes out the bad guy is Eomer from the Lord of the Rings, the sheriff is the boyfriend from the Roommate and he also starred in twillight. The "high priest/bishop" is charles widmore from lost. There you have it so that you don't have your head melt during the movie.

The movie in itself wasn't very innovative, you could easily relate to other vampire movies and I just wasn't impressed. The action was of course overexeggurated but the special effects were quite bad and looked from time to time very unnatural. Over all the movie was a bit of a letdown, not because the movie was worse than other movies from the same genres, but because it didn't stand out.

I'll give it a few plusses though for not beeing dull and for trying to be cool and innovative.
An ok movie if you are into the genre but otherwise I would definitly not recommend it.


The score for Priest is 4 out of 10.