Synopsis
In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities. When the Priest's niece is kidnapped by vampires, the Priest breaks his vows to hunt them down. He is accompanied by the niece's boyfriend, who is a wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess.
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Cast
- Paul BettanyPriest
- Karl UrbanBlack Hat
- Lily CollinsLucy Pace
- Maggie QPriestess
- Stephen MoyerOwen Pace
- Cam GigandetHicks
- Mädchen AmickShannon Pace
- Brad DourifSalesman
- Alan DaleMonsignor Chamberlain
- Christopher PlummerMonsignor Orelas
Recommendations
- 75
Movieline
To 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. - 60
Boxoffice Magazine
In 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. - 60
New York Daily News
It 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. - 50
Variety
Not exactly an unholy mess, but still a rather too pious retread of classic sci-fi/action/horror riffs that lacks originality or pizzazz. - 42
Entertainment Weekly
Its B-movie sins are many, worst among them an icy hero and a plot that feels like it was built from relics of other, better films. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
A short, dour and stodgy creature feature with average 3D effects that draws on so many film influences from westerns, action adventures and sci-fi tales that what fun there is comes from spotting the many sources. - 40
The New York Times
It becomes clear pretty quickly that the only real thought in the movie has gone into the cowboy-gothic costumes and the computer-generated effects. - 40
Los Angeles Times
The film is somehow a disappointing combo of too-full and oddly empty. Even with all the various parts and pieces going into its structure, it feels bare-bones.
