Horror Movie: 'Priest'

Vampires — so hot appropriate now! Additionally religion. And the apocalypse. And maybe cowboys? Pull calm a collection of all these elements and one ends up with article like "Priest," the big-screen adjustment of a alternation of clear novels, directed by Scott Stewart.

A continued war amid bodies and oozy, unsexy, dark vampires concluded with the bodies victorious, acknowledgment to a alliance of battle-trained priests. The actual vampires accept been herded into alien prisons, while bodies alive in walled-off cities, apprehension the warrior-priests unnecessary.

When a city-dwelling above priest (Paul Bettany) learns that his country-dwelling brother (an underused Stephen Moyer from "True Blood") and his ancestors accept been attacked, it's time to dust off the jet-cycle and arch into the arid to investigate. The priest discovers that peacetime has not been as peaceful as it ability accept seemed and has to arch off an advancing vampire invasion.

The blur is somehow a black admixture of too-full and abnormally empty. Even with all the assorted genitalia and pieces activity into its structure, it feels bare-bones — the adverse amid the dystopian future-cities and the dust-bowl hinterlands never creates the astriction it should, and a fistful of crucifixes that become throwing stars is as abysmal as the canon gets.

Stewart, with a accomplishments in beheld effects, brand to abode his characters as tiny specks in vast, accessible vistas, which may partly explain why the blur charcoal disconcertingly remote. An activated prologue (designed by Genndy Tartakovsky in the appearance of Min-Woo Hyung's aboriginal art) gives a album on the belief and contains the film's best agreeable visuals.

"Priest" is actuality projected (and priced) in 3-D venues; it was adapted in column production. While watching in 3-D it is accessible to balloon that there are declared to be some added dimensional effects, were it not for the glasses on your face and their concealment of on-screen color. The blur additionally ends with a arrant accoutrement for a aftereffect that feels not alone crass but additionally abortive — one can alone ambition the filmmakers would accept concentrated added on the blur they were authoritative rather than eyeing the one they ability accomplish next.