Priest (2011)

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The God of Aborted Franchises will be pleased.

May 18, 2011 Full Review

Keith Uhlich

Time Out New York

Top Critic

"Priest'' is based on a series of Korean graphic novels. What it's really based on, though, is other movies - a whole lot of other movies.

May 16, 2011 Full Review | Comments (4)

Mark Feeney

Boston Globe

Top Critic

High production values and slick editing can't save this picture. Nor does its overbearing soundtrack music, which tries to strong-arm viewers into believing they're watching a pulse-pounding thriller.

May 15, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Tirdad Derakhshani

Philadelphia Inquirer

Top Critic

A mash-up of vampire horror and period westerns stewed with Blade Runner cityscapes and ridiculous religious images in a bubbling cauldron of dumb ideas and sinfully bad dialogue.

May 15, 2011 Full Review | Comments (3)

Linda Barnard

Toronto Star

Top Critic

Too good-looking to be dismissed entirely, not bad enough to be worthy of outright scorn, but not good enough to watch, either.

May 13, 2011 Full Review | Comments (3)

Eric D. Snider

Film.com

Top Critic

The film, based in name only on a series of South Korean graphic novels, has nice, washed-out desert exteriors and some cool jet-powered motorcycles, but there's nothing in the hackneyed story or the derivative action scenes to make you take notice.

May 13, 2011 Full Review | Comments (3)

Mike Hale

New York Times

Top Critic

Priest is one of those films you will forget about approximately five minutes after it's over. There is absolutely nothing memorable here.

March 13, 2013 Full Review

Jeff Beck

We Got This Covered

The good news is that Priest is not nearly as painful to sit through as Legion. But that's about it for the good news.

February 15, 2013 Full Review

Steve Newton

Georgia Straight

'Priest' is about five beads shy of a rosary.

January 12, 2013 Full Review

Roger Moore

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Priest is a lousy action movie with boring characters, a convoluted plot, and, most unforgivable, very little compelling action.

October 2, 2012 Full Review

Ben Kendrick

ScreenRant

"Priest" is one of those films you will forget about approximately five minutes after it's over. There is absolutely nothing memorable or noteworthy about it

September 20, 2012 Full Review

Jeff Beck

Examiner.com

anyone who has seen the trailer has seen a good 80% of anything worth watching here

September 16, 2011 Full Review

James White

SFX Magazine

90 minutes of inconsequential action and cliché recycling...painful to watch a semi-interesting setup get squandered and become stuffed into a familiar-as-hell framework where nothing ever seems at stake.

September 9, 2011 Full Review

Eric Melin

Scene-Stealers.com

An ugly exercise in genre filmmaking and religion bashing, Priest marks a new low in the action/horror hybrid, and once again proves why Paul Bettany is the worst action star working today.

August 31, 2011 Full Review

Matthew Pejkovic

Matt's Movie Reviews

Bettany is a great actor who does melancholy very well, he also has a sense of mischief. It would be nice to see it shine a bit before it, too, fades to grey.

August 25, 2011 Full Review

Sandra Hall

Sydney Morning Herald

Its visual style veers between bleached desert tones and slimy undercover dankness, but the 3D version is undistinguished.

August 25, 2011 Full Review

Philippa Hawker

The Age (Australia)

Some scenes on the train have a certain chill, but overall this is likely to short-change genre lovers.

August 25, 2011 Full Review

David Stratton

At the Movies (Australia)

At the very least, the film's herky-jerky mood swings will keep viewers on their toes long after they become bored with the main plot.

August 25, 2011 Full Review

Leigh Paatsch

Herald Sun (Australia)

What's not to like about badass Catholic vigilantes who fly through the air to punch demons in the face? (Don't answer that.)

August 25, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

Clem Bastow

The Vine

Predictable action sequences & lazy character development add up to an all too blatant cash in at the box office

August 25, 2011 Full Review

FILMINK (Australia)

And people say there's no originality in Hollywood anymore. Well, instead of combative angels in a desert setting, the new feature offers a plague of vampires in a desert setting. Progress?

August 24, 2011 Full Review

Brian Orndorf

BrianOrndorf.com

Vampires, cowboys and warrior priests: an unholy mess.

August 23, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

Don Groves

sbs.com.au

Priest 3D might be of interest for those keen on the comics but for others it's a very loud and chaotic but lame fantasy effort with much mayhem but insufficient payoff.

August 22, 2011 Full Review

Andrew L. Urban

Urban Cinefile

• 1. Husband: You find Lucy, you bring her back. And brother, you promise me one thing. Kill em all!
  – Submitted by Alex M (15 months ago)
• 1. Priest: You've got your gun loaded?
  2. Hicks: Why?
  3. Priest: You're gonna need it.
  – Submitted by Alex M (15 months ago)
• 1. Familiar: You're to late Priest, this is their time now.
  – Submitted by Alex M (16 months ago)
• 1. Hicks: Point A? Meet point fucking B.
  – Submitted by Alex M (16 months ago)
• 1. Monsignor Orelas: To go against the church is to go against god.
  – Submitted by Aaron K (16 months ago)
• 1. Monsignor Chamberlain: Remember your vow, to go against the church is to go against god.
  2. Priest: Then I go against god.
  – Submitted by Aaron K (16 months ago)

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