Movie Review: Priest (Spoiler Alert!)

I have a problem with watching movies in 3D. Every time, once I'm done with a movie in 3D, I will get a super bad headache, and basically, I can't stand 3D movies. So when given the choice, I chose not to watch Priest in 3D, and thank goodness, my bf agreed with me.

I had the worst stuffs in my mind. I read the short synopsis of the movie, which is stuck on the ad in the cinema. I was kinda worried, cos it said "A priest goes against church laws..." and I was like "oh oh!". I got quite worried, as this might be one of the movies that my church would say, "We discourage you to watch this movie". But as per usual, being the rebellious one, I would still watch it anyway. And then, there's the vampire issue. I do not believe in them, but I also don't like to acknowledge them in movies (ESPECIALLY in Twilight!). And then, I also found out Maggie Q is in the movie, and I don't like her either.

So I actually went in for the movie, with really low expectations. I even asked my bf, if he minds if I fell asleep. That's how low my expectations were. But the movie was quite epic!

I love the introduction of the movie. The cartoon-bits. People might think I'm childish but whatever! It was cool how they demonstrated the war and the "battles" between humans and vampires. What I enjoyed most was the illusion of the battle between good and evil. To me, this was a very religious and relatively wholesome church movie. Only thing is that, it eventually shows that the church, goes against their own and ends up making their own laws rather than listening to just what God says.

It sort of strengthened my faith a bit somehow. I do feel that churches nowadays, can get quite "ruling". The politics are way out of hand. Sometimes, our own priests, make their own rules, and I think that it's wrong. But I'm grateful that my church has a relatively strong youth group, and I'm a part of that, rather than getting involved in church politics.

So the synopsis of the movie (in my very own words!) is as follows:

Once upon a time, men and vampires could never get along. While men had weapons, and firearms, vampires had very swift movement and were very skillful. However, men had one advantage over the vampires. The Sun. During daybreak, men would try to exterminate as many as they could, but when night fall came, vampires would kill just as any or more men. Eventually, men could not take it, and those who weren't in combat, were taken under the Church as protection. Also, during these times, Priests were formed. Prisests are specially trained under the Church, to kill vampires. They were just as swift and were lethal. After the extermination of most vampires, the Church started to worry about the Priests as they were an unstoppable bunch, in terms of killing vampires. Therefore, using the exact same authority they did to form the Priests, they disbanded them, and released them of the authority to kill anymore. The Priests then found themselves, lost in the sea of people, vowing that "To go against the Church, is to go against God".

One day, a bunch of vampires launched an attack on a house, and kidnapped a young girl, Lucy. Lucy happens to be in love with a sheriff of Augustine, and his name is Hicks. After finding out her kidnapping, he goes on a mission to Cathedral City, to find Lucy's Uncle who's a Priest. Upon finding out Lucy's kidnapping, the Priest approaches the Clergy to request for his authority to be reinstated. But the Clergy denied his request. The Priest then decides to go against the Church and team up with Hicks to go and try to save Lucy. Prior to the kidnapping, Lucy's parents, Owen and Shannon are murdered by what seems to be a new breed of vampires. This makes the Priest very angry as he had once loved Shannon, but had to give her up upon becoming a Priest. He makes it his personal goal to exterminate these vampires and save Lucy. The Church then reinstates all other Priests and one Priestess to find this Priest, and bring him to face the Church, dead or alive. The Priestess seems to have feelings for him, and tries to save him, rather than helping her comrades. Upon the arrival of another city of which the other Priests had gone to look for this Priest (I think the name of the city was Jericho), all the other Priests gets killed by something called the Black Hat. He was a Priest whom had been left in the hive of vampires, and the Queen Vampire had turned him into a Human Vampire.

The Priest and Priestess finds the bodies of these other Priests. When Hicks sees the bodies, Hicks begins to question what they are going after, only to find out, that the reason why the Priest really wants to save Lucy is because, he was her father. So long story short, after super a lot of fighting and action packed nonsense, the Black Hat finally dies, Lucy gets saved and lives happily ever after with Hicks, while the Priest and Priestess go on more hunting journeys to save humanity, as the Queen Vampire isn't dead yet.

What I got out of the movie was:

1. Paul Bettany is not as hot as I thought he would be;
2. Maggie Q is not as irritating as I thought she would be;
3. and.. Karl Urban (Black Hat) is not bad looking :) 

You must be joking if you thought that that was what I got out of the movie. Haha! I think the movie was relatively religious, and about trusting in God, but not go out of hand, that you stay behind the walls and do not do God's work. I believe the Priests did more of God's work than the Clergy did in this movie. So yeah. There you go! 

Rating: 8/10 

Love, Sheryl1986 <3